Guinea's ruling junta missed a Dec. 31 deadline for a promised return to democracy and an opposition leader was sent to jail ...

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program ...

Guinea's junta-led government on Thursday demanded the suspension of all political movements it deemed "without authorisation", as the country's military leaders hinted at possible elections this year ...

If someone with Guinea worm has contact with water the worm may release tens of thousands of baby worms, contaminating the whole body of water.

A British ‘danger tourist’ on a mission to visit every country has become the first tourist to visit several indigenous ...

About a year after Jimmy Carter left the White House, he founded the Carter Center in 1982, based on a “fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering.” That mission ...

Guinea could hold a presidential and legislative election this year, the government spokesman said on Thursday, more than three years after a junta seized power in a coup.

A Guinean court on Tuesday handed an opposition figure two years in prison for "insulting and defaming" the head of the ruling junta, prompting condemnation from the opposition and Amnesty ...

Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close. Carter helped lead a decades-long campaign ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter spent decades waging war against an ancient parasite. Carter has tried to rid the Earth ...

Former President Jimmy Carter worked for decades to eradicate Guinea worm disease around the world. Whereas 3.5 million cases of the painful parasitic infection were recorded in 1986, preliminary ...

On a 2007 visit to Savelugu Hospital in Ghana, President Jimmy Carter asks a group of children if they've had Guinea worm. A ...