Document trove shows how 'Africa's richest woman' stole fortune
An award-winning investigative team published a trove of files Sunday allegedly showing how the daughter of Angola's former president — dubbed Africa's richest woman — syphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of public money into offshore accounts. The New York-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ...
Sepsis linked to 1 in 5 deaths worldwide, study says
Sepsis played a direct role in the deaths of 11 million people in 2017, almost twice as many as previously estimated, according to a study published Thursday. That represents 1 death for every 5 cases of the condition, and 1-in-5 deaths from all causes worldwide, ...
First malaria vaccine tried out in babies in three African nations
A pinch in the leg, a squeal and a trickle of tears. One baby after another in Malawi is getting the first and only vaccine against malaria, one of history's deadliest and most stubborn of diseases. The southern African nation is rolling out the shots ...
A tragic airline crash with far-reaching consequences, cataclysmic cyclones that may be a harbinger of the future, the death of an African icon and a new leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize. These African stories captured the world's attention in 2019 — and ...
France has officially deployed its first armed drones, three American-built Reapers fitted with laser-guided missiles, in its fight against a jihadi insurrection in Africa's Sahel region, Defense Minister Florence Parly announced Thursday. The drones, which have already since 2014 provided surveillance support to the French ...
Cobalt fallout: Tesla and Apple among firms accused of aiding child labor in Congo
Five of the world's largest tech companies have been accused of being complicit in the death of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo forced to mine cobalt, a metal used to make telephones and computers, in a landmark lawsuit. The legal complaint on behalf ...
Rwanda begins vaccinating against Ebola at border with Congo
Rwanda on Sunday started a voluntary Ebola vaccination program at its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to prevent the spread of the deadly virus from its neighbor. All countries in high-risk areas, even if not hit by Ebola, had been ...
China's neighbors fret over Beijing's military and economic might, poll shows
China's neighbors feel threatened by the country's overseas investments and military might, even though people in many countries around the world view the Asian power's economic growth positively, a poll showed Thursday. While just over half of people in Japan agreed that China's economic growth ...
At least 62 migrants traveling on a makeshift boat have drowned off the coast of Mauritania, in the worst loss of life this year along the increasingly traveled Atlantic migration route to Europe. Eighty-three survivors managed to swim to shore after their boat, which was ...
WHO slams 'collective failure' as measles killed 140,000, mostly kids, in 2018
Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. In figures described by its director general as "an outrage," the WHO ...
UNHCR rejects claim it is 'starving migrants' at crowded Tripoli facility to get them to leave
The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday it was encouraging migrants to leave a severely overcrowded Tripoli center, but rejected as "offensive" a British daily report alleging it was "starving" asylum-seekers to force them out. "I find that accusation offensive," UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi told reporters ...
