UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the continued lack of access to displaced people hampers the ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

People living along the Uganda-DR Congo (DRC) border have been urged to reinstate and observe standard operation procedures (SOPs), including frequent washing and sanitising of hands ;to prevent the ...

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized by the ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in ...

The Trump administration is limiting the nation’s ability to respond to infectious disease as Marburg, Ebola rise ...

Uganda on Monday started the first-ever vaccination trial for the Sudan species of the Ebola virus four days after an ...

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the World Health Organisation and its partners conducted an assessment with DR Congo’s government between Jan. 26-30 “and report that 700 people have been ...

The disease has been detected in Rwanda and DR Congo where over 5,000 and 200,000 doses, respectively, have been delivered. Read: Ebola outbreak confirmed in Kampala, one dead The viral disease ...

The M23 rebel group was advancing towards Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a UN expert said on Friday, just days after the group seized the key eastern city of Goma.