Health

The fast-moving Ebola outbreak originating in the Democratic Republic of Congo has crossed regional boundaries on an unprecedented scale, reaching four other countries and testing public health surveillance across the...

Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to Ministry of Health data released on 31 October. The government counted 5,026 deaths among 10,351...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Genomic sequencing has linked Ebola cases detected in Kenya and Nigeria to the same transmission chain and to viruses circulating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, while...

About 59 million children under five in Africa do not eat the range of foods they need to grow well, according to the World Health Organization, and those children are...

Behind the gates of a local church in Waterval B, a semi-rural settlement near Siyabuswa in Mpumalanga, law enforcement officers uncovered a scene that looked far more like a penal...

Kenya’s Ministry of Health has officially confirmed the country’s second case of Ebola, ten days after an imported infection resulted in the death of a 40-year-old businessman in Nairobi. The...

Analysis | 10 October 2026 The movement of a critically ill traveler across Central and East Africa without detection has triggered an emergency reckoning among regional epidemiologists. As health authorities...

Analysis | 9 October 2026 Public health authorities across East Africa breathed a cautious sigh of relief on Friday as regional screening protocols faced another high-stakes trial. Officials in northeastern...