An estimated 80,000 children are at high risk of cholera, as the rainy season begins across West and Central Africa.

THE United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has the second highest cases of cholera outbreak in West and Central ...

Ongoing violence has displaced more than 100,000 people in two regions of Somalia in the past two months, the UN Office for ...

Welcome to today’s Africa Liveblog, where we’re tracking key developments across the continent. From strategic shifts in ...

Niger State is still grappling with cholera outbreaks, with 27 patients currently on admission across four local government ...

An estimated 80,000 children are at severe risk of cholera as heavy rains sweep across West and Central Africa, exacerbating ...

Niger State has recorded 27 new cholera cases.Saturday PUNCH gathered that the new patients were currently on admission across four local governments areas of the state.These new cases came after the ...

The United Nations and world health community are mourning David Nabarro, the British physician and public health champion ...

Cholera, which spreads primarily through contaminated water and food, causes severe diarrhea and dehydration. The ongoing El Tor pandemic, also known as the seventh cholera pandemic, emerged in ...

But in 1832, people believed cholera was linked to intemperance and vice, which were thought to weaken the body. According to the prevailing miasma theory, it caused outbreaks once airborne.

Cholera cases have surged this year and the disease could be making an “unwelcome comeback” as war, poverty and climate change create ideal conditions for it to spread, warned World Health ...