Cameroon recently launched a vaccination program against malaria to help eliminate the strain the disease has heaped on its health system. This move marks a significant milestone in the West African country given how prevalent the disease has been in the region. The launch of the vaccination program began today.  Cameroon launches milestone ma...

 Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa. The campaign due to start Monday was described by officials as a milestone in the decades-long effort to curb the mosquito-spread disease on the continent, which accounts for 95% of the world's malaria deaths. "The vaccin...

 In a quiet neighborhood in Kenya, Faith Wanjiku, a trained assistant nurse, diligently attends to her patient, 85-year-old Teresa Mukhovi. Teresa is battling dementia, hypertension, and diabetes, and her daughter Petronilla has been her primary caregiver for the past two years. Petronilla, however, found conventional hospital care financially...

According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. In a Monday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was "recovering well." He added that "initial results show promising neuron spike detection...

 For over ten years, a former gang leader from the Los Angeles area has consistently admitted to orchestrating the murder of the renowned hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur in 1996. Prosecutors in Las Vegas argued on Thursday that these admissions, made by Duane "Keffe D" Davis, serve as compelling evidence to oppose his release to house arrest befor...

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 Storm clouds are finally gathering over Zimbabwe's biggest animal reserve, but it has come too late for more than 110 elephants that have died in a searing, extended drought. There is little that Simba Marozva and other rangers at the Hwange National Park can do except cut the tusks off the rotting corpses before poachers find them. With the ...

 The Zambian authorities announced on Thursday that they were stepping up their health campaign to combat cholera, a disease that has been on the rise since October and has already claimed the lives of nearly a hundred people in the southern African country this year. The Minister of Health, Sylvia Masebo, called for more drastic hygiene measu...

 Mbongeni Ngema, author of the musical "Sarafina" about student revolts in apartheid-era Soweto, died Wednesday in a road accident at the age of 68, his family announced. "It is with a heavy heart that we announce the brutal death of our beloved brother, father, husband, and compatriot, Mbongeni Ngema," the family announced in a statement, say...

 The year 2023 has witnessed significant strides in the fight against malaria and Alzheimer's disease, marking a continued commitment to health and scientific progress despite the presumed end of the COVID-19 pandemic, as reported by the World Health Organization. New vaccines are being rolled out globally to combat seemingly incurable disease...

 Bad weather on Sunday left four people dead and around twenty missing in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, when a building was swept away by a swollen river, the authorities said on Monday. The accident occurred in a rural mining area in the Mwenga territory. In heavy rain, local residents, small-scale miners, shopk...

Во Всероссийском НИИ рыбного хозяйства и океанографии (ВНИРО) состоялось заседание Совета по науке, которое прошло под председательством руководителя Федерального агентства по рыболовству Ильи Шестакова.Основной вопрос – приоритетные морские и пресноводные экспедиционные исследования: подвели предварительные итоги 2023 года и обозначили планы на 20...

 Sofia Boutella says she was "terrified" to lead the ensemble cast of Zack Snyder's Netflix epic "Rebel Moon." "It was very intimidating to me. And this is the biggest movie I've ever been on. And just I, I think I but to be honest, I always start a movie thinking I'm not going to be able to do it. And I always end up finishing it and doing it...

 Tourism in Tunisia recorded a clear rebound in 2023 with 8.8 million visitors, up 49.3% in one year, and is well on the way to surpassing a record reached in 2019, before the Covid pandemic, a Tourism Ministry official told AFP on Thursday. "Our objective was to recover 80% of the tourist flows recorded in 2019", a record year which serves as...

Pterocarpus angolensis, широко известный как дикий тик или кровавое дерево, представляет собой вид дерева, которое растет в Южной Африке. Он известен прежде всего своим темно-красным соком, похожим на кровь, которую он выделяет, когда дерево срубают. Дикий тик, хорошо известный в тропической Африке, где используется для изготовления высококачествен...

 Russia was ready to supply more grain to Tunisia, Moscow's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday during a visit to the North African country grappling with shortages fuelled by drought. At a meeting with Tunisian President Kais Saied in the capital Tunis, Lavrov said Russia's crop yields had been good "for the second or third year in a...

 More than 300 firefighters were battling a blaze on the slopes of a mountain near Cape Town in South Africa for a second day on Wednesday. Meanwhile residents were evacuated from at least one neighborhood overnight, emergency services said. Five firefighters were injured and two were taken to the hospital, the city's Emergency Services spokes...

Цикл лекций и практических занятий в г. Бужумбура (Республика Бурунди, Африка) провела к.м.н., биолог Тюменского медицинского университета Мария Владимировна Орлова для студентов Национального института общественного здоровья. В состав российской делегации также вошел представитель Роспотребнадзора. Доцент кафедры мобилизационной подготовки здравоо...

 Абу-Даби, Объединенные Арабские Эмираты - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Сегодня его высочество шейх Мухаммад ибн Заид Аль Нахайян (Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan), президент ОАЭ, наградил победителей конкурса Zayed Sustainability Prize передовой глобальной премией ОАЭ за достижения в области устойчивого развития и филантропии в ходе церемонии, прошедшей на ...

 Сотрудники отдела природно-техногенных геосистем Института степи УрО РАН Роман Ряхов и Антон Щавелев в ноябре провели научные исследования в Республике Гвинея (Западная Африка), сообщает orensteppe.org. Оренбуржцы работали в составе международной группы вместе с организаторами исследований – представителями Института биологии южных морей имен...