January 13th, 2021The Western media's reporting on Africa, as exemplified by a recent The New York Times article, tends to towards the simplistic and condescending, according to an...
South Africa is in the process of finalising a R25m investment to boost pan-African vaccine manufacturing capabilities towards COVID-19 through the African Renaissance...
May 13th, 2020
This weekend’s African Union heads-of-state video meeting, chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa, greeted with polite silence claims by Madagascar’s president that...
South Africa has taken part in the launch of the World Health Organisation’s initiative, which will see international collaboration aimed at accelerating the...Africa
Africa will likely see higher numbers of coronavirus cases in coming weeks because of the likelihood some are slipping through the net, the head of a regional...South Africa
The government plans to quarantine a number of South Africans who have been in China in the small Free State town of Thaba Nchu, 63km from Bloemfontein, says a Mail...
February 5th, 2020
The likelihood of a coronavirus outbreak in Africa was “very, very high”, the World Health Organisation warns, as cases of the respiratory illness soar past the...
July 17th, 2019
South African Aids researcher and scientist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, has been inducted as a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society, reports The Times. The...
September 13th, 2017South Africa has taken a lead in the HIV response, but HIV won’t be overcome until the country faces some hard truths about drug abuse and its own prejudices, write...
June 15th, 2016The African Union is creating an African Health Volunteers Corps that will fight epidemics and other emergencies, based on the team of volunteers that helped to thwart...
