Elon Musk, an unelected US official leading budget cuts, claims funding to contain Uganda's Ebola outbreak "accidentally" ...

An aerial view shows the busy Namirembe road in the Central Business Centre after the health ministry announced an outbreak of Ebola virus in Uganda's capital, Kampala. [Reuters] A nurse has died ...

Why not all African countries should venture into vaccine business ANALYSIS | The African Union has embarked on one of its ...

Currency values vary over time across the globe, as a result of being constantly influenced by factors like economic ...

Beijing coveted the DRC's mineral trove -- a global position of immense economic import. In 2006 and 2007, Chinese front companies began buying DRC cobalt, copper and rare earth mineral operations. In ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has met with South Sudanese officials as concerns grow over a potential resurgence of civil war following the house arrest of the country’s main opposition leader.

It doesn’t rain, it just pours; so goes an overused adage. In Kampala, we might have a new variation of that; it doesn’t just rain, it floods. The morning of Wednesday saw Kampala and ...

Globally, plastics are infiltrating agricultural lands—spreading across fields through fertilizers, encasing seeds, serving ...

Ugandan commercial banks are invading lower end, riskier, segments of the market in a bid to make more sales and take advantage of drying credit opportunities. Now experts say this reflects both ...

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and ...

The global health landscape stands at a critical inflection point. Multilateral organisations, including WHO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and ...