November 08, 2022
Uganda: Uganda to End School Year Early Amid Ebola Outbreak
The Ugandan government says it will end the school year earlier than planned because of an Ebola outbreak that has affected 23 students, including eight children who died. Read more »
November 05, 2022
Africa: WHO - Rise in Ebola Outbreaks in Africa Linked to Climate Change
World health officials are linking a significant rise in African Ebola outbreaks in this century to climate change. Read more »
November 04, 2022
Senegal: Historic Senegal Fishmeal Factory Lawsuit Dismissed
A court in Senegal has dismissed a lawsuit by a fishermen's collective against a fishmeal factory they had accused of polluting their village and destroying their livelihoods. Read more »
November 03, 2022
East Africa: Climate-Related Disease Outbreaks Surge in Greater Horn of Africa
The United Nations reports that up to 222 million people globally are facing acute hunger -- and that 47 million of them in the Greater Horn of Africa. Read more »
October 25, 2022
Africa: Africa Tourism Leaders Seek to Revive Sector After Covid-19
Africa's leading tourism operators are meeting in Botswana for talks on reviving the industry after the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Intra-African travel is at the top… Read more »
October 24, 2022
Cameroon: Authorities Say Cholera Hits Minawao, a Nigerian Refugee Camp
Authorities in Cameroon say they are struggling to contain a cholera outbreak in an overcrowded refugee camp on its northern border with Nigeria. In the past week, three people… Read more »
October 22, 2022
Somalia: UN Food Agency Warns Somalia Near Full-Blown Famine
The World Food Program warned Friday it is only a matter of time before Somalia is hit with a full-blown famine and people start dying in droves. Read more »
October 21, 2022
Somalia: Somalia On Brink of Unprecedented Crisis As Famine Looms - WHO
The World Health Organization says hundreds of thousands of people in drought-stricken Somalia may die unless the international community acts urgently to prevent the country from… Read more »
October 19, 2022
Cameroon: Health Officials Battle Cholera Outbreak As Floods Ravage Border Areas
Cameroon says a fresh wave of cholera outbreak provoked by ongoing floods in its northern border with Chad and Nigeria has killed at least 17 people and many more are feared dead… Read more »
October 13, 2022
Cameroon: Armed Separatists Prevent Health Workers From Assisting Monkeypox Patients
A monkeypox outbreak has been confirmed in the town of Mbonge, health authorities in Cameroon say, but armed separatists are preventing workers from investigating suspected cases. Read more »
October 12, 2022
Uganda: Uganda, WHO to Try Two Vaccines for Rare Ebola Virus Strain
Uganda and the World Health Organization are planning to try out two vaccines for the Ebola Sudan virus to try and curb the spread of the rare strain. The virus has so far killed… Read more »
October 10, 2022
Malawi: Malawi Announces Rollout of Children's Malaria Vaccine
Malawi's health ministry says it will soon roll out Africa's first malaria vaccine for children under age five. Read more »
Cameroon: Cameroon Sees 100% Increase in Mental Health Care Seekers
Officials in Cameroon say the number of mental health patients in the country has more than doubled in the past year, as the country deals with a separatist crisis in its western… Read more »
October 07, 2022
Africa: China Paving 'Health Silk Road' in Africa
The Beijing-funded African Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is due to open in the next few months. The controversial project is just one example of… Read more »
October 03, 2022
Somalia: Somalia Teetering On the Edge of Famine - UN #AfricaClimateCrisis
The United Nations humanitarian office on Somalia says the country is still teetering on the edge of famine. Read more »
October 01, 2022
Uganda: Uganda Seeks Ebola Funding Amid Exposure of 65 Health Workers
The World Health Organization and Ugandan authorities are seeking nearly $18 million to help contain the Ebola outbreak in the country for the next three months. The initiative… Read more »
September 30, 2022
Kenya: Health Officials Investigate Suspected Ebola Case
Kenyan health officials are investigating a suspected case of Ebola in the country's west near Uganda, where an outbreak of the deadly virus has been blamed for at least 35 cases… Read more »
Africa: Cholera Surging Globally As Climate Change Intensifies
Cholera is surging around the globe, the World Health Organization warns. Read more »
September 29, 2022
Uganda: Govt Fights Deadly Ebola Outbreak As President Assures It's Under Control
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has assured the country that an Ebola outbreak is under control and that no restrictions on movement are needed. The country's health officials… Read more »
September 28, 2022
Nigeria: MSF Seeks Humanitarian Aid for Malnourished Children in Northwest Nigeria
Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders has called on the United Nations to add northwest Nigeria to its humanitarian response plan, due to high numbers of children suffering… Read more »
September 27, 2022
Cameroon: Anglophone Hospital Workers Say They're Victims of Both Military and Separatist Brutality
Separatists in Cameroon have abducted five hospital staffers in the western town of Kumbo. The rebels say they were retaliating after Cameroon's military entered the hospital and… Read more »
September 22, 2022
Malawi: World Health Organization Declares Malawi Trachoma-Free
Malawi has become the first country in southern Africa to eliminate trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness, the World Health Organization announced. Read more »
Senegal: Landmark Lawsuit Filed Against Senegal Fish Meal Factory #AfricaClimateCrisis
A Senegalese fisherman's collective is suing the owners of a fish meal factory, which they say has polluted their village and destroyed their livelihoods. The lawsuit is the first… Read more »
September 20, 2022
Uganda: Uganda Confirms Ebola Outbreak After Man Dies From Virus
Officials in Uganda have confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The country's Ministry of Health says a young man died of the virus in central Uganda Monday, and several… Read more »
September 16, 2022
Ghana: Ghana Marburg Outbreak Declared Over
The World Health Organization has declared an end to Ghana's outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after more than six weeks without any new cases. Read more »