Aid teams from the UN World Health Organization ( WHO) “cannot move freely to support the hospitals, even ambulances cannot ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

A potential Ebola outbreak has been reported in the DRC, at a time when the Trump administration has paused communication ...

As UN agencies reported "relative calm" on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern in August 2024, a day after ...

Japan has sent the Democratic Republic of the Congo 50,000 doses of a vaccine against mpox, previously known as monkeypox.

"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest ...

The area was also the epicentre of an outbreak of a new strain of mpox, declared a public health emergency of international ...

Rebels appear to be edging closer to taking control of the key city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

British foreign secretary laments lack of global attention to crises in Africa compared with conflicts in other regions - ...

Advances being made by the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo are "heightening the threat of a regional war, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it has deployed an emergency medical team to help Uganda fight a deadly Ebola outbreak that killed a health worker in Kampala, the Ugandan ...