Barring new cases, the patient’s recovery kicks off a 42-day countdown to declaring the country’s 16th outbreak over.

On Sept 4, 2025, DR Congo declared its 16th Ebola virus outbreak. The epicentre of this outbreak occurred in the Kasai province—the first resurgence in this region since 2008.1 Genomic analysis ...

Ghana, like much of the world, has endured the devastating shocks of COVID-19 and faced the looming threat of Ebola. Lives were lost, businesses collapsed, poverty deepened, and fiscal resilience was ...

Models were more consistent than individual experts but performed comparably to ensembles of many experts and relative performance varied by month, justifying the use of combined model and expert ...

Outbreaks of mpox have now been reported in more than a dozen countries across Africa, revealing a continent-wide surge just ...

Previous outbreaks in 2018 and 2020 in eastern Congo killed more than 1,000 people each. The largest Ebola outbreak occurred in 2014 to 2016 in West Africa when more than 28,600 cases were reported.

Haiti Air Ambulance Services Inc has announced the appointment of John M. Lyon, Esq. as the Executive Director of Friends of ...

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on October 8. Check what happened ...

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and his aides have spent months gearing up for his transition to the White House, assembling a team that will grow to include several hundred staff members as the ...

It was July, eleven years ago, when a man stepped off a flight into Lagos carrying more than just his luggage. Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian diplomat, had been in close contact with his sister who had ...

Until this year, West Africa looked to have shed its "coup-belt" moniker, winning plaudits as a model of democratic progress on the continent. But last month's putsch in Mali is fuelling fears among ...