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Rapper Jay-Z and tech mogul Jack Dorsey are launching a roughly $24 million fund to help develop bitcoin. The Brooklyn-born artist and the Twitter CEO are putting 500 bitcoin into an endowment called “₿trust,” Dorsey announced Friday. The...

When Riëtte Badenhorst got home from her cancer surgery in South Africa, all her fiancé Steve Mann could do was comfort her on the phone, all the way from the UK. Riëtte wishes he had been with her.

Guinea, the West Africa country, announced Sunday that the Ebola virus has become an epidemic after the deaths of three people and hospitalizations of four others, a report said. Reuters reported that the country’s health system is not faced...

President Biden is concerned about and eager to help fight a pair of new Ebola outbreaks in Africa, the White House said Tuesday. The dreaded and often fatal virus recently resurfaced in Guinea in West Africa and in the distant Democratic Republic of...

A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday suggests that Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against concerning new coronavirus variants, including one first seen in South Africa called B.1.351.

South Africa has offered its stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to the African Union, a senior health official said, as the country pivots to using shots developed by Johnson & Johnson instead.

COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna appear to offer significantly less antibody protection against the highly-contagious variant that emerged in South Africa, new studies show.

Southerly winds from Africa will bring Saharan dust into Europe this weekend. The increase in dust can bring beautiful sunsets, but also poor air quality.

Robbinroger Beever was 15 years old and walking home along a beach in Liberia, West Africa.

Elementary school children don't typically venture far from home on their own, but 11-year-old Abou managed to cross a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, from Africa to Europe, in the hands of strangers.

A new coronavirus strain that shares some characteristics with the South Africa variant is emerging in New York City, researchers said Wednesday. As of mid-February, the new variant, called B.1.526, was present in about 12 percent of coronavirus...

DAKAR, Senegal — A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck nations in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary...

Captured in the wild to be kept as status symbol pets in the gardens of hotels and private homes, gray crowned cranes are an endangered species in Africa. However, over the past decade Rwanda successfully brought them back from the brink, thanks to...

When Covid-19 vaccinations arrived in Kenya for the very first time this week, the country's health minister likened them to critical weapons of defense.

Before Wakanda, there was Zamunda. Let me say that again for the people in the back: Before Wakanda, there was Zamunda. (No shade to “Black Panther.”) So it’s no wonder why black folks across the US, Africa and everywhere else melanin-blessed...

The first participants in Moderna’s trial assessing new variant-specific booster shots have been vaccinated, the company announced. The new vaccines target a coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, which has demonstrated reduced vaccine...

The world's largest desert is growing. In the last century, the Sahara Desert expanded by more than 10%, now covering an area of more than 3.3 million square miles (8.6 million square kilometers) and spanning 11 countries in North Africa.

In an exclusive interview with CNN, BioNTech co-founder and chief medical officer Özlem Türeci talks about receiving one of Germany's highest honors, the Order of Merit, and about how her company's coronavirus vaccine is effective against the UK...