‘Mpox made my throat so painful I couldn’t sleep’
Egide Irambona, 40, sits bare-chested on his hospital bed, next to the…
The children bearing the brunt of the mpox outbreak
Children in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are worst-affected…
The Kenyan enthralled by the healing power of plants
Martin Odhiambo has always been interested in the healing properties of plants…
I’d rather help my customers stay healthy than make money
The reason I was named Emama Fishka (Mama Whistle) was because there…
Ambroise Bertin: ‘First we were enslaved. Then we were poisoned’
"First we were enslaved. Then we were poisoned." That's how many on…
Jalikatu: ‘I am the Sierra Leonean eye doctor who lived through the civil war’
Jalikatu is a Sierra Leonean eye doctor and one of only four…
My battle with bipolar disorder
I was first employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in 1995…
DR Congo Ebola outbreak: Child in Uganda diagnosed with virus
A five-year-old boy in Uganda has been diagnosed with Ebola, the World…
Working the night shift on Malaria’s frontline in Sierra Leone
It's night-time at Ola During Children's Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone and…
DR Congo Ebola deaths pass 1,000
The death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of…
