Pandemic

Freetown - The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the National Public Health Agency (NPHA) have received sixteen Honda motorbikes from the World Health Organization (WHO), with support from the Pandemic Fund, to strengthen public health emergency preparedness and response across Sierra Leone. The handover ceremony took place at the WHO…

The Trump administration’s deep cuts to federal health agencies have become a political liability after a deadly outbreak of hantavirus aboard a cruise ship and the spread of an even more fearsome disease, Ebola, in Africa. At least that’s the way many Democrats see it. They have seized on the…

Peter Murrell bought more than 100 toilet rolls just hours before then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the public against panic-buying during the pandemic. The disgraced SNP chief executive splurged on the essentials as his now estranged wife urged Scots to 'apply common sense' when lockdown loomed in March 2020. Murrell…

With summer around the corner, soaring prices and other complications from the war with Iran are straining the tourism-dependent economies of countries in Southeast Asia, including Thailand and Vietnam. The region's peak tourist summer season is at risk as elevated jet fuel costs coupled with ceasefire uncertainties prompt flight cancellations…

1925 portrait of Maria Branyas. Credit: Wikimedia Commons A remarkable new study of the world’s oldest verified living person reveals a surprising picture of extreme longevity. Maria Branyas lived through two world wars, the 1918 flu pandemic, the Spanish Civil War, and COVID-19. When she died in 2024 at age…

Ben Stiller’s wife Christine Taylor credited the COVID 19 pandemic with rekindling her marriage to Ben Stiller, nearly a decade after the couple first split. Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of the McBride Rewind podcast, Taylor explained that lockdown brought the family back under one roof. “If there’s a silver lining…

For decades, the Fed stabilized the economy with one simple tool: interest rates. Raise them to cool inflation, and cut them to stimulate growth. But after years of massive government borrowing, post-pandemic inflation, and repeated stress inside the Treasury market, that system may no longer work the way Americans expect.…

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Friday 29 May 2026 1:07 pm  |   Updated:  Friday 29 May 2026 8:46 am Burberry pushed its net zero goal back by 10 years Burberry has pushed back its net zero target by a decade, becoming the latest blue-chip business to water down ambitious climate goals set in the wake…

Nigeria’s healthtech ecosystem added 65 startups between 2020 and 2025, according to the State of Healthtech in Nigeria 2026 report, curated by TechCabal Insights, Digital Health Nigeria, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative.  The figure represents more than half of the 103 startups launched in the 15 years before the…