An outbreak of meningitis with "unprecedented features" is spreading rapidly in Niger, with a tripling of cases in the past two weeks, hundreds of deaths so far this year and vaccines in short supp

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzania plans to spend 12 billion shillings ($6 million) in the next fiscal year to buy land for the planned construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, raising hopes i

Khartoum - Constitutional and structural reforms will be undertaken by the Ministry of Health in the coming phase to strengthen the health environment and food control departments in all the state

DAR ES SALAAM - The collapse of an illegal gold mine has killed 19 people in northwest Tanzania, a senior police official said on Friday.

World leaders have drawn up ambitious goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and promote development over the next 15 years, but now they have to figure out how to pay the bill.

INDIANAPOLIS - More than 100 people in southeastern Indiana have tested positive for HIV in an outbreak linked to the sharing of intravenous needles, and officials said Friday they're trying to com

Khartoum - During the period 4-9April 2015, a team from the Sudan Country Office of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the project management staff of Darfur Water Project (DWP) for Peace Buil

GENEVA - West Africa's Ebola epidemic still poses a threat to other countries but the risk of international spread appears to be diminishing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

Khartoum – The meeting of the water ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan began yesterday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with the aim of adopting an advisory office to conduct studies on t

Khartoum – Sudan has been Polio free since 2009, President Omar Al Bashir announced, saying it is backed by international and regional organisations.

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