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What might Africa look like in the wake of the pandemic? There’s enough change happening to keep both optimists happy and pessimists glum

The department of health noted in its statement on March 19 that recoveries in previously reported cases were beginning to emerge. (John McCann/M&G)

More than 74 000 people have now been infected by the virus in China, with hundreds more cases in some 25 countries

Examples from Rwanda and Sierra Leone can be incorporated into transitional justice frameworks

After calling on South Africa to cut down on coal, the environmental activist organisation has been criticised as anti-worker

The WHO has recategorised transgenderism from being a ‘mental disorder’ to being a condition relating to ‘sexual health’

The pneumonic plague is forcing the islanders to abandon their traditional burial rites

The state's hopes for the nonsurgical circumcision device rest on its acceptance in initiation rituals.

Insufficient food, climate change and pandemic flu are global crises that could unravel progress in public health, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) director general said on Monday. "These three critical events, these clear threats to international security, have the potential to undo much hard-won progress in public health," WHO director general Margaret Chan said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that 164 people have died from Rift Valley Fever in Sudan, more than half as many again as the latest figure given by the Sudanese government. The WHO called on local media, community and religious leaders to ensure people know what measures to take to reduce the risk of infection.