In the WHO African Region, 21 countries have eliminated at least one neglected tropical disease. Onchocerciasis is the second neglected tropical disease eliminated in Niger: the country was ...

In the WHO African Region, 21 countries have eliminated at least one neglected tropical disease. Onchocerciasis is the second neglected tropical disease eliminated in Niger: the country was ...

Niger joins four other countries that have been verified by WHO for eliminating onchocerciasis, all in the Region of the Americas: Colombia (2013), Ecuador (2014), Guatemala (2016) and Mexico (2015).

Thousands of children in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are struggling to survive on the streets.

A car bomb in northern Syria’s Manbij killed at least 18 women and one man, most of them agricultural workers. The Rapid Support Forces are waging all-out war to conquer the state capital and ...

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