Addis Abeba — As cholera cases continue to rise in Ethiopia's Gambella region, claiming more lives, the government has launched a weeklong vaccination campaign targeting one million people.

It came as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and various other humanitarian agencies called for concerted efforts to contain the "rapidly spreading" cholera outbreak across the Gambella Region ...

It came as the World Health Organization (WHO) and various other humanitarian agencies called for concerted efforts to contain the "rapidly spreading" cholera outbreak across the Gambella Region ...

In Ethiopia's Gambella region, MSF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, has treated over 560 cholera patients since the start of the response in early March, in its cholera treatment ...

Ethiopia has also reported a total of 857 cholera cases and 25 deaths in the regions of Gambella and Amhara during the same period, with a case fatality rate of 2.92 percent, the report said.

Disruption to the water supply has led to reported cases of cholera, signalling the looming threat of infectious ... including many refugees who fled the war in Sudan. In Ethiopia’s Gambella region, ...