Health & Safety

UNITED NATIONS— The UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), in a bid to expel armed groups, conducted 1,191 patrols in the last week, a UN spokesman said.“The mission also reports that it reinforced its presence in Birao, which is in the Vaka...

World Food Program chief David Beasley raised the alarm Wednesday on Capitol Hill about the possibility of global food shortages next year if Russia does not lift its blockade of Ukrainian grain exports and send its own fertilizer to world markets.“And...

A Catholic priest in Malawi who was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison in connection with the murder of an albino man has died.Prison authorities say 50-year-old Thomas Muhosha died July 19, a week after being taken to a public hospital in Zomba ...

A powerful suicide bomb blast rocked Somalia’s town of Jowhar, in Hirshabele state, killing at least three people and wounding seven others. Senior regional administration officials were among those hurt. Militant group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibi...

Flash floods triggered by seasonal torrential rains in Sudan's western Darfur region killed at least 12 people, including children, the U.N. and an aid group said Sunday.Heavy rains started late Friday in the Kass locality in South Darfur province, acc...

Police are on the hunt for suspects after nine people were fatally shot in separate shooting incidents in two provinces of South Africa on Saturday night, police said on Sunday.The latest slew of shootings come on the heels of an uptick in violent deat...

GENEVA— The World Health Organization said it would reconvene its expert monkeypox committee on July 21 to decide whether the outbreak constitutes a global health emergency.A second meeting of the WHO’s emergency committee on monkeypox will be held, wi...

BRAZZAVILLE— Africa faces a growing threat from zoonotic diseases such as monkeypox, the WHO said, with the continent recording a 63-percent rise in such outbreaks over the past decade.A World Health Organization (WHO) analysis found 1,843 “public heal...