By Bunmi Yekini The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Africa has announced the appointment of Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu as Acting…
By Bunmi Yekini Nearly 750,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to their places of origin in Syria since November 2024. Still,…
By Bunmi Yekini On Zero Discrimination Day 2025, global health advocates are raising alarms over a surge in anti-rights and anti-gender movements,…
By Bunmi Yekini The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled its recommendations for the viral composition of influenza vaccines for the 2025–2026…
By Bunmi Yekini Ahead of World Hearing Day 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have unveiled…
…Ceasefire Enables Largest Round Yet in Ongoing Outbreak Response By Bunmi Yekini Gaza’s five-day mass polio vaccination campaign concluded on Wednesday, successfully…
By Bunmi Yekini Medical practitioners, policy experts, and researchers have sounded the alarm over Africa’s dwindling number of surgical professionals, warning that…
By Bunmi Yekini Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend all medical activities in Zamzam camp near El Fasher, North…
By Bunmi Yekini A severe cholera outbreak has overwhelmed health facilities in Sudan’s White Nile State, with at least two dozen deaths…
By Bunmi Yekini Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has announced the death of Jerry Muhindo Kavali, a longtime colleague, who succumbed to a…
