CAIRO — Egyptian health authorities said they have identified the country’s first cases of the highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus.Three people were found to have the variant among 26 travelers who tested positive for coronavirus at…
GENEVA — A new cycle of intercommunal clashes over scarce resources in Cameroon have killed and injured scores of people and sent at least 100,000 fleeing from their homes.Just last week, the U.N. refugee agency reported intercommunal clashes that erup…
The head of the World Health Organization says the continuing surge of COVID-19 cases is a result of the unequal distribution of vaccines.Speaking at the First International Conference on Public Health in Africa, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghe…
The head of the South African Medical Association says there is a major difference between the delta and omicron variants of the coronavirus and warns politicians against hyping the threat from the new strain.Dr. Angelique Coetzee criticized Tuesday wh…
African leaders have called on governments across the continent to invest more in healthcare to fight the coronavirus and future pandemics. The appeal came as the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the African Union this week held th…
Published by NJ.com The omicron variant appears to cause less severe disease than previous versions of the coronavirus. While the…
The disfiguring disease noma, found mainly in poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa that lack health care, kills 90% of victims, most of them children, when left untreated. Noma is preventable, and to that end, aid groups are urging the World Health Organiz…
Britain will end a ban on visitors from 11 African countries aimed at combatting COVID-19, the government said Tuesday, despite an alarming spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.After the variant was first detected in southern Africa and Hon…
