health

Reading Time: < 1 minuteArmed men broke into a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early Saturday and seized 15 children as they slept, police told The…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYoung people are more likely to be out of work because of ill health than people in their early 40s, a report…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHundreds of primary schools could be forced to close by the end of the decade because of a dramatic fall in the…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMiddle-aged adults are six times more likely to be obese if both their parents were at the same time in life, a…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNjeri Migwi’s phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA major study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that patients who received blood from donors who later suffered brain haemorrhages,…

Reading Time: < 1 minutePressure is building on authorities in Italy to close a notorious Rome migrant detention center where a 19-year-old Guinean allegedly hanged himself last…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe United States on Friday said Zimbabwean officials last month “abruptly detained and deported” U.S. Agency for International Development officials who had…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report…