The worst flooding that parts of South Sudan have seen in 60 years now drowns the homes of 700,000 people, according to the UN’s latest reports. This is the third straight year of extreme flooding in South Sudan, further imperilling the livelihoods of many of the 11 million people in the world’s youngest country. A […]Read More
A report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday found that governments are still planning to extract double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with the 2015 Paris climate accord’s goal of keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). The Production Gap report, […]Read More
Vaccination against Ebola has commenced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a new outbreak was recorded in the region weeks ago. Five months after the country declared an end to the last outbreak that killed six people, new cases were reported in the first week of October, claiming the lives of 2 people. Health […]Read More
One Ebola case has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a few months after the latest outbreak in the country was declared over. A three-year-old boy tested positive near the eastern city of Beni, one of the epicentres of the 2018-2020 outbreak, and died from the disease on Wednesday, Health Minister Jean […]Read More
The United Nations has asked that the international community change its response to natural disasters to provide a lasting solution to the global problem. Given the ever-increasing frequency of severe weather events, human-made catastrophes and epidemics, piecemeal and fragmented responses will fail to address root causes and may in fact compound the challenges, a new […]Read More
Health Minister, Pierre N’Gou Dimba, has announced the country first Ebola case in 25 years. Dimba publicly shared that officials confirmed the case after testing samples from an 18-year-old female who travelled from neighbouring Guinea. “This is an isolated and imported case,” he said, adding that the patient was currently being treated in intensive care […]Read More
The World Health Organization has reported the first case of Marburg virus disease in the West African country, Guinea. Marburg disease is closely related to Ebola and, like COVID-19, is passed from animal hosts to humans. The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, was found […]Read More
As Nigeria’s health sector barely struggles to stay afloat, new reports have revealed that the country has lost over 4500 medical professionals to the UK in 6 years. 4,528 Nigerian medical doctors trained in the country have migrated to the United Kingdom to practise their craft as the UK continues to improve its immigration process […]Read More
Doctors in state-run hospitals in Nigeria have begun another indefinite strike over unpaid salaries, insurance benefits and poor facilities amid fears of a third wave of coronavirus. This is the second strike action by doctors in the country in this year alone. The strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which represents about […]Read More
German drugmaker BioNTech has announced its new production of an mRNA-based vaccine to prevent malaria, the longstanding disease that has affected millions of people in Africa and other parts of the world. The company, which developed America’s first authorized coronavirus vaccine with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer, said clinical trials shots would begin by the end of 2022. […]Read More
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