Human Services

UNITED NATIONS— British pharmaceutical company GSK has been awarded a contract to produce the world’s first malaria vaccine so that millions more children will be protected against the killer disease, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced.The landm…

The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Wednesday that Ethiopia’s conflict-ridden province of Tigray is the worst humanitarian and man-made disaster on Earth.The WHO chief said more than 6 million people …

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday highlighted the need to support millions facing starvation and disease in the Horn of Africa.Speaking from Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said drought, conflict, climate chang…

A measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed at least 157 children, with more than 2,000 infections reported across the country, the government said Tuesday.Cases have been growing rapidly in the southern African nation since authorities said the first in…

The first vessel transporting Ukrainian wheat grain to support humanitarian operations run by the World Food Programme (WFP) has left the port of Yuzhny, also known as Pivdennyi, the UN agency reported on Tuesday. The MV Brave Commander departed with 2…

Al-Qaida’s affiliate in Mali claimed Monday it had killed four mercenaries from Russia’s private military firm, the Wagner Group, in an ambush around Bandiagara in central Mali.The media unit for Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), said in a …

A Mali prosecutor says the 49 Ivory Coast soldiers held in Mali since July on accusations of being mercenaries have now been charged with undermining state security.Mali’s prosecutor in the counterterrorism unit gave the update on the soldiers’ situati…