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Bavarian Nordic gearing up to produce 10 million doses of mpox vaccine as ‘further imported cases’ in Europe are coming, WHO warns
The WHO on Thursday warned further imported cases of the new, more dangerous mpox strain in Europe were likely, after…
Shares in Danish mpox vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic soar 12% as WHO declares a global health emergency
Shares in Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, which manufactures a vaccine targeting mpox, soared Thursday after the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Topline The World Health Organization declared an international health emergency Wednesday over an escalating mpox outbreak in Africa, joining the…
Former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang was convicted Thursday in a financial conspiracy case that welled up from from his country’s “tuna…
Kenya launched a fertilizer subsidy in 2008 and now farmers say the soil is dying and chemical fertilizers that make the land acidic are to blame
When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could…
Sergey Brin is using money from selling his Tesla shares to bankroll a startup developing hallucinogenic mental-health treatments
Google cofounder Sergey Brin got a $366 million windfall from selling all his Tesla shares back in 2021—now he’s using…
A Nigerian conservationist and his team are racing to save the Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii), a shy, mysterious cetacean…
Eating frogs is a cultural practice in some parts of Ghana, but now a researcher there is studying the impact…
Africa loses 20,000 millionaires in 10 years as the wealthy flee the continent—or stay and watch their riches melt away
The number of millionaires living in Africa dropped by nearly 20,000 in the past decade as the continent’s ultra-rich either moved away…
The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority, signaling first-ever coalition government to come
The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new…












