Southern Africa

The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, on Tuesday, announced the commencement of a Phase 3 clinical trial to...

A cholera outbreak in Zambia forced authorities to defer the reopening of schools by another three weeks, the education minister...

Zambia is dealing with one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent years as 351 people have died and nearly...

Zambia has recorded at least 684 suspected human cases of anthrax, including four deaths, according to the World Health Organisation....

Rescue workers in Zambia have pulled out the first survivor of a Dec. 1 landslide that inundated an open-pit copper...

Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency in the capital Harare over a cholera outbreak. The outbreak has so far...

Namibia's President Hage Geingob, 82, died in hospital early on Sunday, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with...

Early on a summer’s morning, their chores done, Luyandi Hlali and her friend Mimi Dubazane set off on their 10...