Lesotho is a small mountainous kingdom landlocked by the Republic of South Africa. The total population in 2020 was projected to be 2.1 million people, of which 7.5 per cent are people aged 60 years […]
UN agencies and others on Monday formed a global alliance to prevent new HIV infections and ensure that by 2030 all HIV positive children can get access to lifesaving treatment.According to UN data, more than three quarters of all adults living with HI…
How did a popular period drama on Chinese TV help lead to the theft and brutal slaughter of millions of donkeys in Africa?It all started when fans of the show “Empresses in the Palace” saw the aristocratic characters using a traditional Chinese medicin…
Maseru – Critical care patients in Lesotho will soon be spared a trip to South Africa to receive treatment. The country is on the verge of opening its first intensive care units in public hospitals.At Mafeteng Hospital in southwestern Lesotho, an eight…
Record-breaking drought in Ethiopia has caused child malnutrition rates to soar in the northern Afar region, where the only referral hospital says babies are dying within hours of arrival. Ethiopia’s war with Tigrayan forces has left less than 10 perce…
JOHANNESBURG— The number of young people who have died at a makeshift nightclub in a township in South Africa’s southern city of East London has risen to 20, a senior safety official said on Sunday.“The number has increased to 20, three have died in ho…
MADRID — Human rights organizations in Spain and Morocco called on both countries to investigate the deaths of at least 18 Africans and injuries suffered by dozens more who attempted to scale the border fence that surrounds Melilla, a Spanish enclave i…
NAIROBI, KENYA — Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 people, mostly ethnic Amhara, had been killed in an attack in the country’s Oromia region, and they blamed a rebel group, which denied it.It was one of the deadliest such attacks in …
KINSHASA/KIGALI, An armed Congolese soldier was shot dead at the Rwanda-DR Congo border in Rubavu after he entered Rwanda and indiscriminately fired at border and security personnel on duty.He was shot by a Rwanda National Police officer on guard at ar…