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Zimbabwe ministers 'eliminated' by medical assassins
Zimbabwe Information Secretary Nick Mangwana who sparked a row by suggesting that some Zimbabwe government ministers and officials who have succumbed to COVID-19 could...
Bogus Zim doctor worked at hospital for 7 months undetected
A man who posed undetected as a doctor at one of Zimbabwe's biggest hospitals for seven months has been arrested and charged with fraud...
Zimbabwe doctors may need state approval to work abroad
Zimbabwe is seeking to tighten the rules on how a certificate which its doctors need in order to get work abroad is issued as...
Radical changes to Zimbabwe medical training draws criticism
Two radical modifications in the training of medical doctors in Zimbabwe have caused a ruckus in the medical fraternity where they have met with...
7 babies stillborn in a single night at Harare Central Hospital
Seven babies were stillborn, out of eight Caesareans performed at Harare Central Hospital in Zimbabwe on Monday night after urgent treatment was delayed because...
Madagascar's public hospitals to turn away COVID-19 patients
Public hospitals in Madagascar said they’ve reached full capacity and will only accept patients with the most severe forms of COVID-19 as cases surge...
Egypt blames doctors for spread of coronavirus
Egypt is arresting medics who speak out about the country's coronavirus crisis, Business Insider says according to multiple reports. The arrests come after the...
Zimbabwe Health Minister fired over US$42m tender scandal
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked Health Minister Obadiah Moyo for “conduct inappropriate for a government minister”. The dismissal was confirmed by presidential spokesperson...
Zimbabwe raises government worker salaries after nurses' strike
Zimbabwe has raised salaries for all government workers by 50%, hours after nurses stopped work at a major government hospital in the capital Harare,...
Prayer has rid the country of COVID-19 says Tanzania's president
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has declared the country "coronavirus-free" thanks to prayers by citizens, reports BBC News. "The corona disease has been eliminated thanks...
Police struggle to round up 100s of African quarantine escapees
Police across swathes of Africa have failed to find more than a fraction of hundreds of people who have escaped from often unsanitary and...
Zim govt: Farm ownership guarantee to growers of medicinal cannabis
The Zimbabwe Health Ministry has announced that all local and foreign investors promoting the production of cannabis will be offered 100% ownership of their...
Tanzania accused by opposition of hiding true COVID-19 stats
Tanzania’s infection rate and death toll from COVID-19 are far higher than the government is acknowledging, Daily Maverick reports opposition activists claim. They insist...
WHO's worst case scenario sees up to 24,000 COVID deaths in SA
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that South Africa will experience the third highest toll in Africa from the coronavirus pandemic, with just...
Burundi expels WHO, Tanzania's president calls for prayers to 'vanquish' COVID
Burundi has ordered the expulsion of the World Health Organisation expert team co-ordinating the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic, while the president of...
WHO study: Up to 190,000 may die in Africa over next year
Eighty-three thousand to 190 000 people in Africa could die of COVID-19 and 29 million to 44 million could get infected in the first...
Rwanda and Lesotho extend lockdown, Ghana lifts it
Lesotho, despite not yet recording any COVID-19 cases, has joined Rwanda in extending their lockdowns, while Ghana has become the first African country to...
Lack of testing raises fears that pandemic epicentre is moving to Africa
As the daily number of new COVID-19 infections appears to be falling in parts of the world, some fear the epicentre of the virus...
Africa's COVID-19 numbers expected to rise sharply
Africa will likely see higher numbers of coronavirus cases in coming weeks because of the likelihood some are slipping through the net, the head...
Delay in final exams may leave Zim with shortage of junior doctors
Zimbabwe could find itself without junior doctors because the University of Zimbabwe is still delaying setting final exams for fifth-year medical students from 2019....
China's plan to build Africa's CDC headquarters 'a threat to Africa'
The Trump administration has cited concerns over Beijing’s scientific spying programme as the reason it wants to block a Chinese plan to build an...
Killer disease stumps Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
Speaking on the strange killer disease in Benue State, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire said the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) was...
Zimbabwe junior doctors end strike but senior doctors remain out
Some Zimbabwe junior doctors have ended their more than 100 days of industrial action, after the intervention of Catholic bishops but because many senior...
Desperate Zimbabweans go to Zambia for medical care
The Zimbabwe government has, with immediate effect, hiked by 600%, fees at all public hospitals, something that is set to add more misery to...
Malawian albinos are being kidnapped and sacrificed
Nowhere is it more dangerous to be an albino than in Malawi, where they are captured by the albino-hunting gangs and either killed immediately...
Zimbabwe senior doctors stop work as public hospital strike spreads
Senior doctors at Zimbabwe's public hospitals have gone on strike to protest against the dismissal of junior colleagues who have boycotted work over pay...
Zimbabwe fires 211 striking doctors
211 junior and middle level doctors at Zimbabwe state hospitals who had been striking for two months to press for higher pay have been...
Lesotho and Namibia hit by disease outbreaks
South Africa’s neighbours, Lesotho and Namibia, have been hit by disease outbreaks, says a Cape Times report. Lesotho has reported measles in the Qacha’s...
Zimbabwean ministers spar over starving hospital patients
Reports of Zimbabwe patients starving while in hospital came to light in parliament after Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri asked Labour and Social Welfare Minister...
Zimbabwe achieves betterTB treatment coverage than SA
Zimbabwe is among the countries with high tuberculosis (TB) burdens that achieved treatment coverage levels of more than 80%, in 2018, the World Health...
Zambia's first local polio case since 1995, from vaccine
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Zambia has reported its first local case of polio since 1995, in a 2-year-old boy paralysed by a...
DRC's Ebola epidemic contained in a 'smaller geographical area'
Efforts to halt an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo have made "significant progress", with the virus now contained to a far...
Harvard scrambles to distance itself from honour to Zimbabwe's first lady
The Global Health Catalyst (GHC) group has “clarified” its honouring of Zimbabwe’s first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa hours after several US diplomats wrote to ask...
Zimbabwean doctors protest ZHDA president's abduction
A group of Zimbabwean doctors marched at the country's biggest hospital Sunday, demanding the release of one of their leaders who they say was...
Burundi starts Ebola vaccinations for health workers — WHO
The Burundian Ministry of Public Health and AIDS Control has kicked off the vaccination campaign for front-line staff against the Ebola virus disease. The...
Two Ebola treatment trials show promise of a cure
A trial of four experimental Ebola treatments carried out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been stopped early after two of...
Congo doctors arrested for murder of WHO medic
Three Congolese doctors have been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the killing of a World Health Organisation (WHO) medic, BBC News...
More Ebola cases in eastern DRC 'cross-roads' city
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to contain an Ebola epidemic, after a gold miner with a large family contaminated several...
Concern over contraceptive solutions for women at high risk of HIV
Over the past three days, the World Health Organisation guideline development group has been meeting to discuss its recommendations for the use of contraceptive...
Lesotho opens 'lowest cost in world' cannabis processing plant
Lesotho, long home to an illicit cannabis farming industry, is poised to become one of the world's biggest producers of medicinal cannabis oil with...