The health ministry of Uganda has reported an increase in confirmed Ebola cases from three to nine. The outbreak of this ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

But first: Eastern Congo contains some of the world ... city of Goma has been one of the epicentres of recent outbreaks of mpox and Ebola. It also faces outbreaks of cholera, measles and other ...

Kampala, Uganda – A month after an Ebola outbreak struck Uganda in September ... discovered in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire), is the most lethal of the ...

Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people were being monitored under quarantine, health authorities said Tuesday. The nine include the first victim, a male nurse who died the ...

There is also an ongoing media campaign to educate villagers about the crisis. Congo's last major Ebola outbreak in Kikwit was in 1995, when 250 people in an area about 250 miles west of the current ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the continued lack of access to displaced people hampers the ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo, where rebels are threatening to overthrow the Congolese government ...