Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Landslip kills six in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast

Six people died overnight in Abidjan, the economic hub of Ivory Coast. Four adults and two children killed. Two people hospitalized with injuries. Six people died overnight in Abidjan, the economic hub of Ivory Coast, after torrential rain prompted a landslide, according to rescue services. Four adults and two children were killed, and two people … Read more

Africa pins hopes on ‘breakthrough’ malaria vaccine

malaria

ABIDJAN: A ground-breaking vaccine against malaria has stoked hopes in Africa of rolling back a disease that claims hundreds of thousands of lives a year, many of them youngsters. Since 2019, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have immunised more than 800,000 children under a pilot programme using the RTS,S vaccine. It is the first to show significant protection … Read more