At least 94 people have died and 26 are missing after an overcrowded makeshift ferry capsized in northern Mozambique amid panic over a cholera outbreak, officials said. The ferry carrying around 130 passengers sank off the coast of Nampula province as many panic-stricken passengers tried to escape the cholera outbreak on the mainland while some to attend a fair. Lourenco Machado, an administrator of the country’s Maritime Transport Institute, informed of an updated death toll on state television on Monday as rescue workers found more bodies. Nampula’s secretary of state Jaime Neto said...

United States President Donald Trump has lived up to his threat to suspend funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) after he criticized the organization’s response to the Covid-19 epidemic. The president announced his decision to cut funding for the organization despite reactions against his earlier threat to do so. Mr Trump said on Tuesday that the WHO had "failed in its basic duty" in its response to coronavirus. According to the president, the WHO made deadly mistakes and took sides with China to cover up the epidemic while at an early stage. Mr Trump accused the WHO of overly trusting...