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South Africa Pledges $2.5 Million to Support Ebola Response in DRC and Uganda

May 21, 2026 Steven Addamah 0

South Africa has contributed 2.5 million US dollars to support efforts to combat Ebola outbreaks in DRC and Uganda through the Africa Centres for Disease […]

Nigeria launches anti-Mpox vaccination campaign

October 22, 2024 Steven Addamah 0

Nigeria has launched its national vaccination campaign against MPOX, a virus that has infected 103 individuals in the country without causing any fatalities, as of […]

Officials Report Over 90 Fatalities in Mozambique Ferry Tragedy

April 8, 2024 Geraldine Boechat 0

Local officials have reported that over 90 individuals perished when a ferry capsized off Mozambique’s northern coast. In Nampula province, it was confirmed that out […]

Equatorial Guinea: 10 deaths from the Marburg virus according to a new report

April 4, 2023 Steven Addamah 0

The new provisional toll of the Marburg virus disease epidemic that has been raging for more than two months in Equatorial Guinea stands at 10 […]

South Africa: one death from cholera, a first in 15 years

February 24, 2023 Steven Addamah 0

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 […]

Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak kills in Equatorial Guinea

February 14, 2023 Steven Addamah 0

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

January 12, 2023 Geraldine Boechat 0

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 […]