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

Geneva, Switzerland - International health ... of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which had been dubbed "Disease X," is entirely due to known pathogens. The Geneva-based World Health ...

A potential Ebola outbreak has been reported in the DRC, at a time when the Trump administration has paused communication ...

As UN agencies reported "relative calm" on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces ...

Democratic Republic of Congo authorities are investigating 12 possible cases of the deadly Ebola virus in its northwest, ...

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

The World Health Organization reports that over 2,000 people have been wounded and 45 have died due to fighting in Congo's Goma region. The clashes have heightened the risk of spreading diseases such ...

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

The area was also the epicentre of an outbreak of a new strain of mpox, declared a public health emergency of international ...

"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 ...

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

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