"It wasn't Guinea-worm disease. After receiving treatment, he was able to resume his life as a fisherman. I was very proud to have helped him." In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the elimination ...

Aid teams from the UN World Health Organization ( WHO) “cannot move freely to support the hospitals, even ambulances cannot ...

British foreign secretary laments lack of global attention to crises in Africa compared with conflicts in other regions - ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

More than a thousand people were admitted to hospitals in the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid hostilities.

After days of intense fighting, the humanitarian situation in Goma, capital of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has reached alarming levels - with humanitarian needs now massive and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern in August 2024, a day after ...

Advances being made by the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo are "heightening the threat of a regional war, ...

Japan has sent the Democratic Republic of the Congo 50,000 doses of a vaccine against mpox, previously known as monkeypox.

"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest ...

In early December, international alarm bells went off because of a mysterious disease circulating in a remote part of the Democratic Republic ... the World Health Organization says it now has ...

Aid teams from the UN World Health Organization ( WHO) “cannot move freely to support the hospitals, even ambulances cannot ...