The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have launched a continent-wide response plan to the outbreak of mpox

Dozens of African leaders have gathered in Beijing for a summit that signals China’s influence in a continent that it hopes will be a key ally in pushing back against a U.S.-led global order

Libyan authorities say a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving one person dead and 22 missing

Uganda's leading opposition figure Bobi Wine has been shot in the leg and “seriously injured” in a confrontation with police outside the capital, Kampala

The head of the World Health Organization believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months

A leading African scientist says the growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-related disease

Africa's public health body is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases, with almost 4,000 reported on the continent in the last week

Congo has recorded 1,030 of the 1,405 new mpox cases in Africa over the last week

Qatar Airways has acquired a 25% stake in the private African carrier Airlink