Edna Bonhomme, author of "A History of the World in Six Plagues," details how pandemics are about more than viruses ...

Parasites that cause the deadly illness known as sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native Africa as a result of ... have been detected in Asia, South America and southern Europe.

In this column, Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed bring to life a story of working class Indians from Natal, who left to Lobito Bay for a better life. Their story has largely been forgotten. But it is ...

Can’t decide where you want to start your next (or first) safari in Africa? We collected the top 10 safari ... The park is also home to the tsetse fly, which transmits sleeping sickness. Visitors ...

The bullet ant, native to Central and South America, is renowned for its extraordinarily ... the tsetse fly is a vector for the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness. These flies have a ...

She begins with early 19th-century outbreaks of cholera, which hit enslaved people in the American South ... sleeping sickness, he eventually proved that it was transmitted by bites of tsetse flies, ...

Trypanosoma brucei in the blood of a patient suffering from African human trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness. The situation worsens when considering that current treatments are ...

South African Airways (SAA) has announced that it suffered a “significant cyber incident” that began on Saturday, 3 May 2025, disrupting access to the airline’s website and mobile application.

The mother of a South African girl, who disappeared aged six more than a year ago, has been convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter. Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s second-biggest political party launched a legal challenge Tuesday against a new labor law aimed at boosting the hiring of majority Blacks and other groups in some ...

President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this year to cut off aid to South Africa is endangering U.S. involvement in a rare earths project seen as crucial to U.S. hopes of gaining ground in the ...

South African police rescued 44 Ethiopian nationals, including 17 minors, from a house in Johannesburg's Sandton area, where they were held against their will. This incident follows a series of ...