Until recently, the emergency room at Liberia’s main hospital was “a place you came to die,” says Dr. Braden Hexom, who teaches emergency medicine at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine. With perhaps the world’s...

The president of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Sheikh Sharif Ahmed fired the country’s top military chief Monday due to allegations that he ’sold weapons’ illegally, Radio Garowe reports. According to inside...

Four months before Southern Sudan is scheduled to hold an independence referendum, tensions are already rising in this oil-rich region that sits on the expected future border, with allegations the central government is using violence and ethnic...

Uganda and three other African countries- Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan have been declared free of Polio again. The countries, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) have not reported any cases of polio for over a year. “Today the Horn of Africa...

Tusingwire Patrick is slouched in a chair at the Victory Rehabilitation Center on the outskirts of Kampala, recalling his time as a maker of homemade banana gin. “I knew it could be dangerous, but I didn’t know it could kill so many...