
The Guardian - 9 hours 22 min ago
Man, 69, is in intensive care in Johannesburg, while expedition guide Martin Anstee, 56, receiving care in Netherlands What is hantavirus? Two Britons who were medically evacuated from the hantavirus -hit cruise ship are improving, global health officials have said. A British passenger, understood to be a 69-year-old man, was taken to South Africa on 27 April and is receiving care at a private health facility in Sandton, Johannesburg. Continue reading...

BBC - 15 hours 17 min ago
As claims of xenophobia in South Africa mount, Ghana calls on the African Union to send a fact-finding mission.

The Independent - 15 hours 59 min ago
Ghana said on Wednesday it had facilitated the safe return of a citizen who was seen being targeted in a video that went viral...

BBC - 16 hours 26 min ago
A 69-year-old woman who later died in South Africa is among those who left MV Hondius at St Helena.

NBC News - 17 hours 33 sec ago
The cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak is now heading towards the Canary Islands and sparking a global race to stop the virus from spreading further with contact tracing now underway in multiple countries. People who left the ship are being treated for the disease in Switzerland, South Africa and the Netherlands. NBC's Raf Sanchez reports and Dr. Ashish Jha, a senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School, joins TODAY to break down what to know about the disease.

The Guardian - 23 hours 5 min ago
Nobel laureate says he previously considered himself a supporter of Israel, but the campaign of annihilation in Gaza has changed all that' Nobel laureate JM Coetzee has declined to attend an upcoming literature festival in Israel, writing a excoriating letter to organisers citing the country's "genocidal campaign" in Gaza, stating: "It will take many years for Israel to clear its name". The 86-year-old author, who was born in apartheid South Africa and lives in Australia...