Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is spread by infected blackflies in rural areas along rivers and lakes. Niger is the first African country and fifth worldwide to eliminate the ...

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 ...

Citing its alleged dependency on former colonial powers, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have also exited from the regional ECOWAS bloc, opting to launch their own union instead. Put together ...

River Region Credit Union has received approval for an acquisition of Missouri Credit Union from the National Credit Union Administration. Missouri Credit Union’s voting-age primary account ...

BELLOWS FALLS — The town of Rockingham and its two villages of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River took a big step Tuesday ... if a group or person asked the town to fly the Nazi flag? He said Bellows ...

Susan Creaser, 78, regularly flies a Union flag and Yorkshire flag in her front garden in Eastrington, East Yorks. But when it was hoisted up the flagpole earlier this month it was accidentally ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria ... Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is a parasitic disease and is the second leading ...

BRANDON — The union for health-care aides says the reliance on private agency workers by the Prairie Mountain Health region keeps rising, and hit $20.9 million in the last fiscal year.