It seems the women in Afghanistan are about to witness the Taliban rule of 1996 again as the group has ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burka in public.The blue burka became a global symbol of the Taliban's previous regime in Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, and the decision to make it mandatory again marks an escalation of growing restrictions on women in public.The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice read a decree fr...

After conducting laboratory tests in the northwest Kagera region, Tanzania has confirmed its first-ever cases of the Marburg Virus Disease.Eight people reported symptoms, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to order tests, according to a statement released on Wednesday.Five of the eight confirmed cases have already died, including a health worker; the remaining three are receiving treatment. More than 160 of the infected person's contacts are being kept tr...

No fewer than 43 people are currently fighting for their lives as s domestic passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania early on Sunday due to bad weather shortly before landing in the northwestern city of Bukoba."There was an accident involving a Precision Air plane which... crashed into water about 100 metres from the airport," regional police commander William Mwampaghale told reporters at Bukoba airport.No information was immediately available on the...