South Africa: one death from cholera, a first in 15 years
A 24-year-old man has died of cholera in South Africa despite the fact that the country has not had a death linked to the infectious […]
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Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak kills in Equatorial Guinea
Nine people have died of Marburg virus disease, a hemorrhagic fever nearly as deadly as Ebola, in eastern Equatorial Guinea, a small central African country […]
WHO declares end of Ebola outbreak in Uganda
The Ebola epidemic in Uganda is over, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Uganda’s Health minister announced Wednesday, less than four months after the announcement […]
Malawi needs cholera vaccine
Malawi has asked the United Nations for more cholera vaccines in an attempt to contain an epidemic that has already killed 128 people and could […]
DRC: Health Minister announced end of the 11th Ebola epidemic
The 11th Ebola epidemic has come to an end according to the Health Minister who announced it on Wednesday 18 November. This epidemic would have […]
South Africa: Government will lease 700,000 hectares of farmland to black farmers
The program is scheduled to start next week, October 15, 2020 and lands that belong to the South African state are to be leased to […]
Ghana: Country’s economy fell by 3% due to Covid 19
It is a sad first in 37 years: Ghana’s economy fell by 3% in the second quarter of 2020, hard hit by the restrictive measures […]
Kenya: COVID-19 Corruption Protesters called on Head of State to take action
In Kenya, as part of the fight against Covid-19, several hundred million dollars and medical equipment were allegedly diverted. Several demonstrations have been organized to […]
South Africa: Reinstatement of curfew and ban on the sale of alcohol
Two months after lifting them, Pretoria decided to re-impose these restrictions on 12 July, in view of the spread of the epidemic (between 12,000 and […]
Guinea: European Union mobilizes €6 million for the fight against Covid-19
Six million euros, or 65 billion Guinean francs, is the amount included in the contract signed on Monday between the European Union and the NGO […]