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MBOMBELA, SOUTH AFRICA– Teenage pregnancy in South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province is on the rise with public healthcare facilities reporting a 78 per cent increase in just one year, according to Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health in the pr…

MBOMBELA, SOUTH AFRICA– Teenage pregnancy in South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province is on the rise with public healthcare facilities reporting a 78 per cent increase in just one year, according to Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health in the pr…

Medical staff are fleeing hospitals in Cameroon’s troubled English-speaking regions after attacks this month left several nurses dead and many others wounded. Medics say they are stuck between a military that accuses them of aiding armed separatists an…

PRETORIA– With children in nearly 4,000 schools in South Africa still having to use pit latrines, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday launched the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) initiative, whichhe described as an answer to an emergency….

PRETORIA– With children in nearly 4,000 schools in South Africa still having to use pit latrines, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday launched the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) initiative, whichhe described as an answer to an emergency….

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday condemned an air strike by pro-Yemini Government coalition forces, which killed scores of children who were on board a bus travelling through a busy market area in the northern province of Saada. While …

Zimbabwean police took former finance minister and opposition leader Tendai Biti into custody Thursday after Zambian authorities rejected his bid for asylum and deported him, his lawyer said.Police in Zimbabwe were looking for Biti and eight other oppo…

The World Health Organization says experts are starting to carry out Ebola vaccinations in Congo’s latest deadly outbreak.Health officials have warned that containing the outbreak is complicated by the presence of multiple armed groups in the northeast…

BRUSSELS– Yemen has become the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”, the European Union said, demanding the protection of civilians who continue to die in the three-year-old conflict.An EU statement highlighted the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, w…

GENEVA– Aid agencies have issued an urgent call for a ceasefire in Yemen to allow vital cholera vaccinations to take place, days after Houthi rebels said air attacks by a Saudi and UAE-led coalition killed dozens of people in the port city of Hodeidah…