Health & Environment

Gilbert Adum leads Ghana's "Save the Frog" organization Ghana is home to over 80 frog species, but environmentalists say the amphibians are disappearing. Now one...

Photo Credit: Tanzania, State HouseTanzania's First Lady Janet Magufuli has been discharged from hospital.A statement from the government said doctors at the state hospital,...

Some of the sweets given to school children. Photo Credit: Yusuf Abramjee South African police are hunting for a man who is suspected of giving poisoned...

Officials in Ghana have raised alert over the outbreak of Cholera in parts of the country.Local media Starrfmonline.com is reporting that the Ministry of...

Adults in Algeria face a greater than one-in-five chance of dying from one of four main non-communicable diseases. Top among these is cardiovascular disease. Government education...

Unsafe abortions put women's lives unnecessarily at risk. In Ghana, the high fatality rate is prompting calls for the easing of the abortion law...

Every October 24 is marked as ‘World Polio Day’ by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its allied agencies in the fight against the...

Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have surged past an important threshold and may not dip below it for "many generations". The 400 parts per...

This blood sucker might not be your best friend, but it loves you. The mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is causing widespread fear in Brazil where it...