Global leaders call for free coronavirus vacc...

Astronauts aboard the Artemis II spacecraft have begun a four-day journey back towards the earth after completing a flyby of the far side of the moon. The mission began on April 1, when the rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in the United States, and has raised signi ...  Show more

In Malawi where resources are scarce and support is limited, the challenges some parents face when caring for their children with autism are extreme. BBC Africa Eye’s Florence Phiri shares her experience documenting the lives of several parents and children in Malawi living with ...  Show more

Invitée : Francine Ntoumi, épidémiologiste congolaise. Depuis le début de la pandémie, l'Afrique recense 8,5 millions de cas de Covid-19 et plus de 210 000 morts. Aujourd'hui, seulement 4 % des Africains sont primo-vaccinés, un résultat très éloigné de l'objectif annoncé par le p ...  Show more

It’s probably fair to say that the one thing the whole world has collectively been thinking about in the last year is Covid and the vaccines that will defeat the infection. Although some countries in Africa have done well at getting their citizens the jab, Africa remains the leas ...  Show more

In a special edition of The Evidence, Claudia Hammond and her panel of experts focus on Africa, on how the more than fifty countries on the continent, home to 1.3 billion people and the most youthful population in the world, have fared, two years into the pandemic.African scienti ...  Show more

In the fight against Covid-19, every vaccine counts.And yet, both Malawi and South Sudan say they might destroy as many as 70,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.The World Health Organization pleaded with them not to.So what exactly is behind their plan? And what does it tell ...  Show more