Africa

The finding adds a Nigerian perspective to the debate about social media and wellbeing, but does not establish that spending...

Uganda has declared the end of an Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus after completing 42 consecutive days without...

Nigeria has not recorded a case, but the country is being urged to prepare laboratories, isolation facilities and border systems...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has called for urgent regional coordination following a new outbreak of Ebola...

Cholera, measles, and mpox continue to drive public health activity across Africa in 2026, with new data showing a mix...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that Kenya has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, as...

In the latest episode of Paul Talks Science, we go inside the labs — and into the field — with...

A global cholera resurgence is claiming more lives than last year, despite a drop in reported infections, according to a...

In Nigeria’s north, families are skipping meals not by choice, but by force, driven to desperation by conflict, inflation, and...

The world has pulled 100 million children out of labour since 2000. Yet in Nigeria, a rising birthrate and stalling...