and the new South Africa variant. Filmed and edited by Christian Parkinson. Days of heavy fighting between M23 rebels and DR Congo's army leave hospitals overwhelmed with patients. Thomas Naadi ...

The South African coronavirus variant may cut the effectiveness of Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine by around two thirds, according to a laboratory study. Researchers from the University of Texas ...

Swedish officials said the patient was infected during a stay in a part of Africa where clade 1 is circulating and was ...

An infection with the more dangerous variant of the monkeypox virus (mpox) has been recorded in Sweden, Swedish health authorities confirm. This is immediately the first case outside the African ...

The South African strain was worse, as it could evade antibodies from COVID-19 survivors and monoclonal drugs. This indicated the virus might evade the action of existing vaccine variants ...

However, the new research suggests that the UK-developed jab may do little to halt the new variant - triggering a last-minute rethink of South Africa’s vaccination campaign. From our morning ...

The mpox virus is currently rampaging through the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 2,000 cases since the start of the year - some of them are expected to have been caused by the new clade 1b variant ...

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a rapid and cost-effective test to identify COVID-19’s British and South African variants within hours instead of days ...

Health officials have raised alarms over a newly identified, highly transmissible mpox variant, suspected of driving a surge in cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The United States’ decision to cut aid to Africa will have a “variant impact” on the continent’s economies, a Brazilian economist said Monday. The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center held a ...