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The number of people rescued from a collapsed building in Kenya has risen to four, while several others remain missing and are reported to have communicated with loved ones from beneath the rubble
In this excerpt from "Killing the Dead," author John Blair looks at how the printed press ramped up tales of vampirism, leading to stories of people e…
A bus has collided with a truck on Kenya's main highway, killing at least 22 people, police said
At least 22 people have been killed after a bus and lorry collided in Kenya, police say.
A Louisiana woman lost more than $10,000 and nearly her home after a scammer used AI videos to pose as Jon Bon Jovi in a monthslong online romance sca…
Gigantopithecus was the largest primate that ever lived. What would have happened when human ancestors encountered it? At nearly 10 feet (3 meters) ta…
That Girl Boina's post about why she had closed her beauty parlour struck a nerve with other small business owners.
Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles swooped on a remote village on Friday, looting shops and setting houses ablaze.
A person has been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Nairobi more than 24 hours after the incident
In places like South Asia, Africa and parts of the Americas, monsoon rains supply water for drinking, crops and hydropower for billions of people. Und…
Rescue teams were searching for seven people feared trapped after a 16-storey building under construction collapsed Friday in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi…
Ethnic clashes in southern Ethiopia have forced more than 2,000 people to flee across the border into neighboring Kenya, with at least nine deaths rep…
Kenya confirmed its second Ebola death Friday after a 65-year-old woman died while receiving treatment at an infectious disease facility, the Health Ministry said, bringing the dea...
She was a close family member of the first victim, a man who had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A multistory building collapsed in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Friday, leaving many people feared trapped beneath massive piles of concrete as more t…
Place names that are changed arbitrarily should not be recognized by the international community, write Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, and Frédé…
A polio-free Africa is within reach, but only if we make it a priority. Ending the disease will not only protect our children, but it will also streng…
Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in UgandaHealth officials across Africa are …
Key Takeaways: Irish central bank fines Coinbase Ireland $1.19m for customer fund safeguarding and outsourcing failures. The company used too much inf…
Nigeria this week recorded its first case of Ebola in the current outbreak, which has spread from the epicenter in Congo to several other African coun…
As Ebola continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), more resources are needed to fight the disease and feed patients and famil…
41-year-old set on ‘dream to be able to race in Africa’Rwanda to host despite criticism of human rights recordLewis Hamilton has said he hopes to rema…
Nigeria’s first Ebola Bundibugyo patient may have crossed paths with Kenya’s recently deceased index patient at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport on 3 October,…
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the first Ebola patients confirmed in Kenya and Nigeria might have crossed paths at…
Plants can't easily pick up and move when environmental conditions get rough, so they've evolved strategies to weather harsh conditions in place. That…
As the deadly Ebola disease outbreak reached an eighth province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), investigators pursued all leads on Thur…
Nigeria’s lone Ebola patient was only diagnosed almost two weeks after showing symptoms – and is reported to have travelled to the capital, Abuja, fro…
