DEATHS

Project Pink Blue (PPB), a leading cancer advocacy organisation in Nigeria, has urged the government to increase awareness of colorectal cancer to help prevent avoidable deaths. The Executive Director of PPB, Mr Runcie Chidebe, made the…

UNESCO reports that at least 68 journalists and media workers have been killed in the line of duty so far in 2024, a UN spokesperson said. Addressing the press, UN Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stéphane Dujarric said, “UNESCO…

Ivory Coast's government has announced a ban on all student unions following the deaths of two students and the arrest of 17 suspects in a confrontation between police and a student association with connections to some of the most powerful…

A Kenyan judge has ordered cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 associates to undergo mental health evaluations before being charged with the murder of 191 children whose bodies have been exhumed since last April from the Shakahola forest.…

A day of national mourning decreed by the Congolese authorities is observed in the Republic of Congo, in memory of 31 young people who died in a stampede Monday evening in Brazzaville during an army recruitment operation. The flags are…

The trial in the adulterated syrups affair which caused the death of children last year in The Gambia resumed before the Banjul High Court. The families of the victims, grouped within the AKI association, are awaiting convictions at the…

Four types of medicine, made in India, caused the deaths of at least 70 children in Gambia last year, according to a presidential commission of inquiry. According to the World Health Organisation the syrups contained "unacceptable"…

Health officials in the United States Of America have reported another death and several more cases of vision loss from illnesses linked to eyedrops tainted with drug-resistant bacteria. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded a total of 922 suspected cases of cholera, including 32 deaths in 2023. The NCDC disclosed this in its latest Cholera Situation weekly epidemiological report for week nine, posted on…

Malawi has delayed the opening of public schools in the southern African country's two major cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe, the health minister said Monday, to try to slow down a surge in cholera deaths. The total number of cases and…