More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according ...

With overcrowded shelters and unsanitary conditions worsening by the day, the risk of a cholera outbreak and other waterborne diseases is escalating, further endangering an already vulnerable ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Chennai: Water-borne diseases, mostly caused by contaminated water and food, peaked in the city in Dec, indicating poor sanitary conditions and water contamination. Experts say cases surged ...

Waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and diarrhea claim hundreds of thousands of African lives each year. Children are especially vulnerable to these diseases because of their developing ...

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development IGAD an East African bloc and partners on Thursday launched a project to protect civilians from cli ...

At the time, Easwary did not realise that her daughter, like many others in their flood-stricken community, had unknowingly been exposed to a waterborne disease. It was the monsoon season in the ...