BREAKING: Kenya confirms first case of Novel Coronavirus as WHO declares its outbreak officially...
NAIROBI MARCH 13, 2020 — The virus which exploded in China’s Wuhan City in Hubei Province has claimed 4,600 lives with over 126,000 people infected globally out of whom...
Cancer pandemic: With its affluent citizens and politicians still flown overseas for cancer treatment,...
KAKAMEGA, KENYA MARCH 21, 2020 — Julius Shilenga Lumwamu struggled 13 months in a series of misdiagnosis beginning June 2006 after discovering a swollen lymph node on his left...
Africa’s Health Care Systems: The Continent’s Time to Rethink on its Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan
JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI APRIL 4, 2020 — The coronavirus pandemic is currently putting a lot of strain on Africa’s health systems beyond its limits in curbing the exponential spread of the...
Campaigners hail Sudan’s move to criminalize female genital mutilation
Global women’s and girls’ rights campaigners have hailed the move by Sudan’s transitional government to criminalize Female Genital Mutilation but warned that it will take a while for the...
Secondary Impacts Of COVID-19 Threatens Children’s Lives Than The Disease Itself, Warns A New...
Nairobi, June 3 — As many as 30 million children’s lives are at risk from deadly diseases such as malaria, lack of immunization, or increased malnutrition, as health systems...
Kenya suffers the effects of Coronavirus outbreak even without a single case reported.
Nairobi, March 11 — As the world scare from the coronavirus also known as the COVID-19 intensifies, many businesses across the world continue to register losses due to movement...
Tanzania, Burundi Shun COVID-19 Vaccines
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — As nations worldwide are banking on COVID-19 vaccines to quash the deadly Coronavirus, Tanzania and Burundi have rejected the badly needed jabs, a move...
Kenya’s reported COVID-19 death set to cause panic, learning from Italy’s rise in death...
NAIROBI MARCH 26, 2020 — Kenya, on Thursday confirmed its first Coronavirus (COVID-19) death after a 66-year-old male Kenyan citizen passed on in the afternoon as confirmed cases rise...
Zimbabwe extends lockdown by two weeks
HARARE — Moved by the rising positive cases of the dreaded coronavirus, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa today extended the national lockdown against coronavirus by 14 days.
The Southern African nation’s...
Zimbabwe Hit By Sixty COVID-19 Deaths In 24 Hours
Harare — Zimbabwe was on Monday hit by 60 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours, this at a time the country has lost a total of 773 people since the first...
South Africa records first positive case of Coronavirus
South Africa has just recorded its first positive case of coronavirus today.
In a statement issued by the country’s Health Minister Zweli Mkhizhe, the government confirmed its first positive case...