Kenya's health authorities said that robust measures are underway to mitigate the risks of viral diseases such as Marburg, mpo ...

In March 2023, Tanzania experienced its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare and deadly hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. That outbreak also occurred in the Kagera region, which borders ...

On mpox, Amoth said since Kenya declared an outbreak on July 31, 2024, the country has confirmed 38 cases across 12 counties, including one fatality. Half of the confirmed cases involve individuals ...

Uganda has had access to candidate vaccine doses since the end of an Ebola outbreak in September 2022 that killed at least 55 ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, the Congolese minister for foreign affairs, about gains made by rebels backed by Rwanda.

A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, died after testing positive for Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended ...

pointing to “a lot of ongoing [disease] outbreaks” in North and South Kivu – two mineral-rich regions close to the Rwanda border, where dozens of armed groups have held sway for decades.

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pointing to “a lot of ongoing [disease] outbreaks” in North and South Kivu – two mineral-rich regions close to the Rwanda border, where dozens of armed groups have held sway for decades. Disease ...

site in Goma," a provincial capital along the DRC-Rwanda border. The main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has become a battleground since fighters from the Tutsi-led M23 armed group ...

GISENYI, Rwanda, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Refugees, surrendering Congolese soldiers and stranded truckers thronged the Rwandan border on Tuesday, hoping to reach safety after rebels captured the nearby ...

Many continued to flee across the border into Rwanda, braving gunfire and heavy rains and caught in between shootouts on both sides from the Congolese soldiers and the rebels. “What we want is ...