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New Ebola Case Confirmed In Eastern DRC
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…
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UN Calls For Integrated Approach For Lasting Solutions To Natural Disasters
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…
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Ivory Coast Records First Case Of Ebola In 25 Years
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…
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Guinea Confirms First Case Of Deadly Marburg Virus
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…
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Nigeria Loses 4528 Doctors To The UK As Health Sector Declines
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…
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Nigerian Doctors Begin Indefinite Strike Over Unpaid Salaries
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…
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BioNTech Says Malaria Vaccine Is in Production
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.…
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‘160m Children In Child Labour’
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nation International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has raised the alarm on the increasing number of child labour worldwide. The duo said that the number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide adding that nine million additional children were at risk as a result…
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Plane Crash In Congo Kills Everyone Onboard
A small turboprop Let L-410 aircraft belonging to the Congolese company Kin Avia has crashed at about noon (10:00 GMT) on Wednesday, June 16, killing everyone on board. Officials from the Congolese Airways Authority and the aviation authority of the Democratic Republic of Congo said the cargo plane descended a few minutes after taking off from…
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20 Killed, 322 Infected As Cholera Outbreak Hits Nigeria Again
Multiple sources have reported a cholera outbreak in northern Nigeria that has killed at least 20 people in the past two weeks. Nigeria records an annual outbreak of Cholera especially towards the rainy season which according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is a result of poor sanitation. The latest cholera outbreak in Bauchi…