Ebola Outbreak

October is here and Ninth is the date when Teleola Kuponiyi, Deyemi Okonlawon, Rachel Oniga, Tina Mba, Peter Fatomilola, under the directorship of Samuel Olateru head to the cinema with the Rise of the Saints. Going to the cinema now will…

Ebola is likely to re-emerge in different regions across Africa in the future considering that it is a water-borne disease, Ngoy Nsenga, a leading expert at the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Ebola response team has said. Mr Nsenga,…

Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the UN’s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivalling a deadly Ebola outbreak in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. In its latest situation report, the…

Seventeen people have been killed in two attacks by the ADF militant group in the troubled Benin region of eastern DR Congo, a local mayor said Friday. Twelve civilians died in Mangolikene on the outskirts of Beni city in North Kivu on…

The deadly Ebola outbreak which has ravaged eastern DR Congo for nearly four months has claimed another 19 lives in just five days, the health ministry has said. The outbreak, which began on August 1, has now killed 241 people, the…

Congolese authorities have authorised clinical trials for four experimental Ebola treatments, which will allow researchers to collect valuable data about their effectiveness, the health ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said health…

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed 180 lives, according to the health ministry, with 10 more reported deaths in recent days. The ministry said Thursday that it had recorded 285 possible cases and 180…

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), warned that rebel violence in eastern DRC was escalating inside the vast country’s Ebola-hit North Kivu province, putting millions at risk. “Thousands of civilians have fled…