Unknown Illness Kills Dozens in Congo as Experts Clash on Cause
The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning event was behind the deaths of 60 people. But African experts ...
WHO says water contamination is suspected in one of the Congo villages struck by illness
The World Health Organization says that authorities investigating the deaths of at least 60 people in northwestern Congo suspect the water source in one of the areas may have been contaminated ...
Conflict Has Turned Parts Of Sudan ‘into A Hellscape,’ Security Council Hears
Now more than ever, two years on, the people of Sudan need your action,” Edem Wosornu of the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said in a briefing to ambassadors on Wednesday. “Nearly two years of ...
Alarm grows as “mystery illness” in Congo has now killed 60 people and infected over 1,000
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) released their latest report on the worsening outbreak of unknown disease in ...
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Humanitarian Agencies WFP, MSF Suspend Ops Amid Heavy North Darfur Flighting
Intense fighting in Zamzam camp in the North Darfur capital El Fasher has forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to temporarily pause the distribution of life-saving food and nutrition assistance in ...
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Uptick in North Darfur Violence Spurs UNSC Action Call
The "already catastrophic" situation in Sudan has worsened in recent weeks, a senior United Nations humanitarian official ...
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Security conditions in a famine-hit camp in North Darfur are 'unbearable,' aid worker says
An international aid worker says that all roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security situation for aid workers on the ground has become “unbearable.” ...
Sudan: MSF halts operations in famine-hit displacement camp
Violence engulfing the Zamzam camp in North Darfur forced the medical charity out, imperiling the lives of nearly half a million displaced people.
Sudan’s military breaks paramilitary group’s siege of crucial city
Sudan's miliary says it has broken a paramilitary group's yearlong siege of the crucial city of Obeid, restoring access to a ...
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MSF halts work in violence-engulfed camp in Sudan's North Darfur
"Despite widespread starvation and immense humanitarian needs, we have no choice but to take the decision to suspend all our activities in the camp, including the MSF field hospital," the charity said ...