Niger just announced its elimination of river blindness. In 1976, the disease had a prevalence rate in the country of 60%.

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

Centum Real Estate (Centum Re) and the Two Rivers International Finance and Innovation Centre (TRIFIC) Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have signed a deal with Distributed Power Africa-Kenya (DPA-K ...

Officials conducted over 17 vessel patrols, 196 vessel checks and 193 resort visits, while issuing 67 warnings in December alone. The South African Police Service (Saps) Gauteng Water Policing and ...

The Cross River State Government in partnership SRHD ... excitement in April 2025 as it prepares to host the second African Skating Championship tagged Skate-a-thon 2025. According to the ...

Yet the country is also home to some incredible stretches of water. This includes the Nile, Africa's longest river and one of the longest in the world. Further south lies the continent's second ...

driving people away from rivers, which are often lifelines for livelihoods," says Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa. "Niger's success ends this burden for its people.

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday. Niger is “the ...

The search for 36-year-old Timothy van Asche, who was reported missing earlier this week, has tragically concluded with the discovery of his body in the Hennops River on Thursday. The National Sea ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

Deep within the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert lies an enormous, circular formation spanning nearly 50 kilometers—an ...

The Gambia River Development Organization (OMVG ... and provide rural electrification to approximately 1.2 million people across Niger and Burkina Faso. African countries are working together to ...