In this week's Scrubbing Up, Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of the Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance suggests Ebola and Zika may be followed by other public health emergencies fuelled by other lesser-known diseases. First it was Ebola and now Zika; two official...
Photos of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey appear multiple times in a 25-minute video created by a group that calls itself the Sons Caliphate Army. The images of the two CEOs are sometimes engulfed in flames, or marked with bullet holes. The...
The protesters were demanding an end to the outsourcing of cleaning jobs at the University of Free State (UFS). On Tuesday, students destroyed the statue of an apartheid-era politician. A wave of race-related protests have hit South African...
Spokesman Col Mohammed Samir said the court should have sentenced a 16-year-old with a similar name instead.Ahmed Mansour Qurani Ali was convicted along with 115 others in connection with riots by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Fayoum province in...
"I came from school at around 18:00, and Mum called me," Balkissa Chaibou recalls. "She pointed to a group of visitors and said of one of them, 'He is the one who will marry you.' "I thought she was joking. And she told me, 'Go unbraid, and wash...
Mr Museveni, 71, is seeking to extend his 30-year rule, in a race widely seen as the tightest in the East African state's history. His main rival Kizza Besigye was briefly detained by police. A foreign observer group condemned the blockage of...
"Turkey will not shy away from using its right to self-defence at any time, any place or any occasion," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Officials said a vehicle full of explosives was detonated as military buses were passing by on...
“It will encompass music, sermons and indoor games to engage everyone,” he said. He said they aim to host three more conferences after this one. “The intention is to change the society through music and make them aware of God’s...
Blood was seen dripping from the South Africa-bound cargo plane during a refuelling stop, the Herald paper said. Zimbabwe's Civil Aviation Authority said the matter had been handed over to the police to investigate. Its chief, David Chawota, said...
Nuevo Leon state Governor Jaime Rodriguez said 12 other people were injured in Topo Chico jail after prisoners fought with "sharp weapons, bats and sticks". A fire was also started in a storage room. Officials say the situation is under control and...
Event organisers had hoped to hold two silent discos - where music is relayed to headphones worn by participants rather than be played on loudspeakers - on rooftop terraces in the Flon area of the city, The Local news website reports. However, after...
You never expect Africa to be cold, but up here on Kenya's Laikipia plateau, it's freezing. Thick cloud hides the spires of Mount Kenya and as darkness falls, the temperature plummets. I'm lying in wet grass with three heavily armed Kenyans. One...
A patient infected in Dallas, Texas, is likely to have been infected by sexual contact, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) told the BBC. The person had not travelled to infected areas but their partner had returned from Venezuela. Zika is...
"Even a madman in [the Eritrean capital] Asmara would know that this story was not true," an Eritrean official told the BBC. The hoax was first published online on a Kenyan news site called Crazy Monday. Some men have commented on Twitter that they...
The infection, which causes symptoms including mild fever, conjunctivitis and headache, has already been found in 21 countries in the Caribbean, North and South America. It has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains...
The plan for a unity government was part of a peace deal in August to end the civil war which began in 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his then-deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup. The two sides blame each other for violating the terms of...
In a report into cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it found children as young as seven working in dangerous conditions. Cobalt is a vital component of lithium-ion batteries. The firms said that they had a zero tolerance policy...
Some mobile users are also unable to read or post tweets to the network, which has over 300 million active members. Twitter chose to communicate the problem via a tweet, in which the firm said it was aware of the problem. A spokesman for Twitter...
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has said it carried out the attack, which began on Friday night. Six of those killed were from Canada, the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Burkina Faso is to observe 72 hours of national mourning...
The US expressed its gratitude to Iran for freeing the sailors one day after they were detained when their vessel broke down in the Gulf. Iranian state media said the group was released after apologising. It comes at a sensitive time, as the US and...
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