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Africa alone sees about half a million snakebites that need treatment every year, according to the World Health Organisation. (AFP)
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS

The battle to bring antivenoms to Africa

A shortage of snake antivenom in Africa is a "shameful failure"

  • Francois Ausseill
4 min read
Uganda vote set to extend Museveni’s 25-year rule
FRANCOIS AUSSEILL

Uganda vote set to extend Museveni’s 25-year rule

Ugandans started voting on Friday in polls widely predicted to return long-time leader Yoweri Museveni to power.

  • Francois Ausseill
4 min read
FRANCOIS AUSSEILL

Kenya to vote on new constitution

Kenyans will vote on Wednesday on a proposed constitution that would rein in the president’s powers.

  • Francois Ausseill
4 min read
BURUNDI

Burundi president hopes God, development will win votes

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza hopes his personal brand of "grassroots development" and religious fervour will win him re-election next month.

  • Francois Ausseill
3 min read
ANNEKE VAN WOUDENBERG

Rape leaves lifelong scars in DRC conflict zones

Recent conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Nord-Kivu province has been accompanied by an upsurge in brutal rape and often barbaric mutilations of women and…

  • Francois Ausseill
3 min read