The World Health Organization has said the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo which has spilled into Uganda is an "extraordinary event" of deep concern but does not yet merit ... Read more »

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has written to his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, who is the current chairman of the EAC, seeking to join the community whose member ... Read more »

Uganda's health ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) have confirmed the first Ebola case in the east African nation since the current outbreak began in eastern ... Read more »

Medicins Sans Frontiers has said that in the first five months of 2019, more than 1,500 measles-related deaths were officially recorded, making this the worst measles epidemic ... Read more »

An escalating Ebola epidemic in conflict-wracked eastern DR Congo has surpassed the 2,000 cases mark, two-thirds of which have been fatal, according to government figures. Since ... Read more »

After nearly four months of being sworn in, and still without a Cabinet president Tshisekedi named a Kabila ally, Prof Sylvestre Ilunkamba Ilunga, as prime minister. Effectively, ... Read more »

The UN and leading aid groups have taken the step of formally declaring that the Ebola outbreak needs a major scale-up from the humanitarian community. Read more »

A campaign by the Ministry of Health which aims to immunise more than 800,000 people against cholera will be supported by the World Health Organization. Read more »

After a four-month wait, Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba has been named as Democratic Republic of Congo's prime minister. Former president Joseph Kabila's political party People for ... Read more »

With the Ebola epidemic now in its tenth month and the number of new cases increasing in recent weeks, the UN has announced new measures to strengthen its fight to end the ... Read more »