Scientists and health advocates in Africa say they’re deeply disappointed by a statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.The CDC last week recommended the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines...

The United Nations estimates 7.7 million people, half of Somalia’s population, will require humanitarian assistance and protection in 2022.It is appealing for $1.5 billion to assist 5.5 million of the most vulnerable among them.Decades of conflict, rec...

Five civilians and a soldier were killed in the latest attack by armed groups in volatile Central African Republic, plagued by fighting between rebels and the army, a local official said Monday.Rebel fighters attacked army positions of Central African ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo army and its Ugandan allies said Sunday they had destroyed rebel "strongholds" in the country's restive east this week, in a campaign launched last month against ADF rebels.Troops from the two countries bombarded "new e...

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 Dutch government is holding an emergency meeting Saturday with health advisers about the fast-spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus before an expected announcement of more lockdown measures to stem its spread.The government proposed new meas...