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Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Gilead to donate remdesivir for emergency use against Marburg disease in Rwanda

Mariam Sunny 1 day

Healthcare

Rwanda to start vaccine trials for Marburg disease in a few weeks

Philbert Girinema 1 day

Healthcare

Pharmacists International Federation: Global vaccine supply in the balance

4 Sep 2024

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Healthcare

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected – it could now turn into the next global pandemic

21 Aug 2024

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To reach your audience’s heart, speak their language

Amber Sambo 3 Jun 2024

Global teacher and education workers labour federation meets in Joburg

Education

Global teacher and education workers labour federation meets in Joburg

20 Nov 2023

Source: City of Hope.

Healthcare

Breakthroughs in medicine: top virologist on the two most important developments for Africa

Oyewale Tomori 2 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Marburg viral outbreak in Equatorial Guinea ends, says WHO

8 Jun 2023

SA's children have lost a decade of reading progress, study shows

Education

SA's children have lost a decade of reading progress, study shows

Liezl Human and Daneel Knoetze 19 May 2023

Healthcare

Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

Katja Hamilton 21 Apr 2023

Healthcare

Equatorial Guinea confirms eight more Marburg cases - WHO

Sofia Christensen and Nellie Peyton 24 Mar 2023

Healthcare

Tanzania detects its first-ever cases of the highly fatal Marburg viral disease

Elias Biryabarema 22 Mar 2023

Healthcare

Tackle TB, prevent future pandemics, report finds

22 Mar 2023

Source: Supplied. Rose Leke, chair of Gavi's IRC.

Healthcare

Gavi appoints Rose Leke as IRC chair

8 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters. Uganda health minister Jane Ruth Aceng addresses the media after receiving a shipment of 1,200 doses for Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, Uganda, 8 December, 2022.

Healthcare

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free after swiftly turning tide on outbreak

11 Jan 2023

Congo beer factory a beacon in region rocked by rebels

Retail

Congo beer factory a beacon in region rocked by rebels

Sonia Rolley 11 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Ebola vaccine candidates arrive in Uganda for trials

8 Dec 2022

Healthcare

Modern contraceptives on the rise across sub-Saharan Africa

16 Nov 2022

Crime, Covid and climate change - South African tourism faces many threats, but it's resilient

Tourism & Travel

Crime, Covid and climate change - South African tourism faces many threats, but it's resilient

Kaitano Dube 26 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Merck to donate Ebola vaccine candidate for research programme in Uganda

Leroy Leo 25 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Serum Institute to produce Ebola vaccine for use in Uganda outbreak

Aaron Ross 17 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Vaccine trials on Sudan Ebola strain to start in weeks - WHO chief

Elias Biryabarema 14 Oct 2022

Source: AfricaCDC.

Healthcare

US to apply Ebola screenings for recent Uganda visitors at 5 airports

David Shepardson 7 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference.

Healthcare

Ebola kills doctor in Uganda, first health worker killed in latest outbreak

Elias Biryabarema 3 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan health workers speak to members of the community before carrying out the first vaccination exercise against the ebola virus in Kirembo village.

Healthcare

Uganda says Ebola caseload rises to 16 as outbreak grows

Elias Biryabarema 27 Sep 2022

Healthcare

Uganda declares Ebola outbreak after Sudan strain found

Elias Biryabarema 21 Sep 2022

Healthcare

Ghana declares end of Marburg virus disease outbreak

Sofia Christensen 19 Sep 2022

Source: public health image library/CDC (public domain).

Healthcare

Child infected with Marburg virus dies in Ghana

Wendell Roelf 20 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. African scientists receiving training in genomics surveillance at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), South Africa.

Healthcare

Covid-19 variants in Africa were introduced from abroad, study finds

16 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

The Institut Pasteur de Dakar's new alliance bolsters West Africa's epidemic preparedness

7 Sep 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Ebola vaccinations to roll out in east Congo this week

24 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters. A health worker in protective clothing carries waste for disposal outside the isolation ward where victims of the deadly Marburg virus are treated in the northern Angolan town of Uige, File.

Healthcare

Ghana confirms its first outbreak of highly infectious Marburg virus

Alessandra Prentice and Nellie Peyton 18 Jul 2022

An Ebola survivor who works as a nurse, waits to receive tubes for taking blood samples at the Ebola treatment centre in Katwa, near Butembo, in the DRC, 3 October 2019. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

Healthcare

DRC declares end to Ebola outbreak

Nellie Peyton 4 Jul 2022

African mining sector set for strong growth in 2022

Energy & Mining

African mining sector set for strong growth in 2022

Mark Buncombe 26 May 2022

Source: Supplied: Petro Terblanche, managing director of Afrigen,

Healthcare

#AfricaMonth: Injecting the continent - and the world - with hope

Katja Hamilton 20 May 2022

Ebola: New case in Congo sparks fear of deadly resurgence

Healthcare

Ebola: New case in Congo sparks fear of deadly resurgence

25 Apr 2022

Mimi Kalinda, ACG Group CEO, shares her storytelling journey

Marketing & Media

Mimi Kalinda, ACG Group CEO, shares her storytelling journey

Evan-Lee Courie 23 Mar 2022

Healthcare

WHO Pandemic Treaty: The makings of a New World Order?

Katja Hamilton 8 Mar 2022

Source: Supplied. ©Gates Archive/Sylvain Cherkaoui.

Healthcare

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome pledge $300m to combat Covid-19

21 Jan 2022

Source: ©Solovyov Andriy

Energy & Mining

ArcelorMittal invests $800m in Liberia

13 Sep 2021

A health worker receives a vaccine against Ebola at a hospital after a case of Ebola was confirmed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 16 August 2021. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Healthcare

Ivory Coast begins Ebola vaccinations after case confirmed in Abidjan

Loucoumane Coulibaly 17 Aug 2021

Source: ©Franco Volpato

Finance

Credit ratings are punishing poorer countries for investing more in healthcare during the pandemic

Ramya Vijaya 17 Aug 2021

Professor Felicity Burt

Healthcare

New variants of Covid-19 may prolong the duration of the virus

13 Aug 2021

Source: ©Jean-Paul

Healthcare

Guinea records West Africa's first Marburg virus death

10 Aug 2021

Source: ©Romolo Tavani

Healthcare

We created a tool to help predict Covid-19 increases in African countries

Steven J Schiff, Andrew Geronimo, Claudio Fronterre & Paddy Ssentongo 23 Jul 2021

Tourism & Travel

How to revive African tourism after the Covid-19 pandemic

14 Jul 2021

Healthcare

Africa has few vaccines: Here's what can still be done to minimise the impact of Covid-19

Deoraj Caussy 30 Jun 2021