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The world’s first multi-country yellow fever vaccination campaign began on 23 November, with 12 million people targeted across Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The push comes as the killer mosquito-borne disease is resurging in some sub-Saharan African countries and vaccine...

Red Cross officials say an outbreak of dengue fever in Cape Verde is the worst ever in West Africa. Hospitals in Cape Verde are running out of room for their patients this week, says the Red Cross' West and Central...

Strengthening its position as a global center in the fight against malaria , the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is one of two Baltimore institutions tapped for a five-year, $100 million project to help combat the mosquito-borne disease....

The 42-year-old was honoured for her novel Trois Femmes Puissantes (Three Powerful Women), a saga set in both Africa and Europe. Frenchwoman NDiaye, whose father is Senegalese and mother French, said: "This prize is an unexpected reward for 25 years...

Health organizations have joined forces to launch the first World Pneumonia Day , urging governments, donors and civil society to act to prevent and treat the world’s leading child killer...World Health Organization (WHO) in a Global Action Plan for the...

Senegal’s president has described as ‘nonsense’ any suggestion that his gift to a departing IMF official early in September was bribery. The president said this in a press conference earlier on Tuesday, which was followed by an official statement from...

Officials had earlier denied money had changed hands but then said Alex Segura was given almost $200,000 (£122,000) at the end of his three-year posting...The IMF said Mr Segura had returned the money as soon as he could. The fund...

Belgian cycling champion Frank Vandenbroucke, shown in 2004, was troubled after doping allegations derailed his career. (Yves Boucau/AFP/Getty Images) Frank Vandenbroucke, a former winner of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Paris-Nice cycling races before his career was marred by a doping scandal,...