Practically everyone at the march had a story about someone who refused to shake hands or moved to a different bus seat when they realized they were near a Liberian.
"Once they hear our accent,...
People arriving in the UK from areas hit by Ebola face "enhanced screening" for the virus at Heathrow, Gatwick and Eurostar terminals.
Downing Street said passengers would be asked questions and...
Over the past five decades, Africa has had – and continues to deal with a number of issues affecting its development including corruption, preventable diseases, insecurity, malnutrition, poor...
President John Dramani Mahama has sworn in Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah as the new Trade and Industry Minister.
This follows a Parliamentary approval on October 2, after the Appointment Committee gave him...
While old electronics pile up and turn Accra’s neighborhood Agbogbloshie into the most polluted place on earth, international agreements trying to stop the transportation of electronic waste...
(South Sudan,Médecins Sans Frontières) A significant decline in the number of new cholera cases in South Sudan in recent weeks has prompted the international medical organisation Médecins Sans...
(Accra, The Presidency) President John Mahama says the August 29, 2013 Supreme Court judgment on a petition brought before it by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), “validated the view that...
(Ho, GNA) - Dr Atsu Seake-Kwawu, Ho Municipal Director of Health Services on Wednesday warned the public against taking Ciprofloxacin as “vaccine” against cholera.
He described the practice as...
In a photo series called 'Hââbré, the last generation', Ivorian Photographer Joana Choumali documents the last generation of African citizens living in a big city like Abidjan with disappearing...
Ebola still has the "upper hand" in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts have the means to stop it, these are the words of Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the...
At least 100 African migrants trying to reach Europe have drowned off the coast near the capital, Tripoli, an official with Libya's coast guard said Monday.
The migrants were found off the shores of...
At least six people have gone missing after a canoe on which they were travelling capsized in the Daboya River in the Northern Region, Tuesday morning.
An eye witness Sawesi Sulemana who spoke to Joy...
Congo’s health minister Felix Kabange Numbi said today that two deaths have been confirmed to be caused by Ebola, the first cases reported outside of West Africa since the outbreak began, according...
A group of people in a suburb of Kaulak, Senegal, had a culture of living with their teeth stained red. Everyone in the Community had their teeth stained and that is how they know those from the...
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo Ano South in the Ashanti Region, Gabriel Barima, who was sacked for angrily chiding health workers in his district for a comment made by an unidentified...
Cholera has killed at least 67 people in Ghana since June and infected more than 5,000 others in an outbreak that highlights the health and sanitation challenges facing one of Africa's...
Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into the armed group's hands in the crisis-hit region, witnesses and a local official have said.
Several residents...
Riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that...
There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia was looted.
An angry mob attacked the centre in the city's...
Former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, has charged his country's President, John Mahama, to check what he describes as the “unprecedented levels of corruption” in the West African...
