Health & Environment

Ethiopia on Monday made history by planting 350 million trees in a day. It had initially targeted a figure of 200 million as part...

Officials of the World Health Organization have said that a fishmonger who died this week of Ebola may have carried the virus from Congo...

The World Health Organization (W.H.O) on Wednesday declared the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international...

Environmentalists in Ghana are fighting the government over the decision to allow for the mining of bauxite in one of its forest reserves, the...

Ethiopia this year launched an ambitious project to plant 4 billion trees to fight deforestation.It will not only save the environment in Ethiopia, Africa’s...

Sugary drinks - including fruit juice and fizzy pop - may increase the risk of cancer, French scientists say. The link was suggested by a...

Food and Drugs officials in Nigeria have banned some insecticides including Sniper, largely used for agricultural purposes due to their usage by citizens to...

Health officials in Ghana have announced the detection of a rare type of polio called the poliovirus type-2.The detection was made in Ghana's Northern...

An Asian couple who tried to conceive through IVF has claimed that a mix-up at a California fertility clinic left them pregnant with the...

An American doctor who has delivered around 8 000 babies over his 40-year career was recently honoured for his unique way of welcoming newborns into...