The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Niger is the first country in Africa to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness ... Additionally, Senegal in 2022 stopped treatment and is now under post-treatment surveillance ...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: WWF is joining with local and international partners to save Africa's third longest river. West Africa's Niger river connects four ecoregions of outstanding importance and some ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Finally, PASEMa will support the development of perimeters to protect water sources located in the Niger and Senegal River basins and supplying the selected cities. "PASEMa will make it possible to ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday. Niger is “the ...