(MENAFN) The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Friday that the mpox outbreak in Africa is no longer considered a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). This decision follows a series of evaluations by WHO's Emergency...
(MENAFN) Russia is set to deliver a mobile anti-epidemic laboratory to Burkina Faso that can test for over 20 infectious diseases, including high-risk pathogens, the Russian Ministry of Energy announced on Wednesday. Developed by Rospotrebnadzor,...
(MENAFN) Russia’s health agency, Rospotrebnadzor, has begun training Ugandan medical professionals as part of an initiative to strengthen Africa’s ability to fight infectious disease outbreaks. The program, launched in Kampala, follows the...
(MENAFN) Uganda successfully contained its recent Ebola outbreak with crucial help from Russian experts, a health official from the country said on Tuesday. Dr. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary at Uganda’s Health Ministry, explained at a...
(MENAFN) Uganda successfully contained a recent Ebola outbreak through collaboration with Russian partners, a Ugandan Health Ministry official announced at an international conference in Sochi. Dr. Diana Atwine, Uganda’s permanent secretary at the...
(MENAFN) China has officially launched clinical trials for its first homegrown mpox vaccine, according to state media reports on Wednesday. This development comes in response to increasing global concerns regarding the virus's transmission. The...
(MENAFN) China has initiated clinical trials for its first domestically created mpox vaccine, as reported by state media on Wednesday. This move comes in response to the increasing global worries regarding the virus's spread. The vaccine was...
With support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), National Red Cross Societies in the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda have mobilized hundreds...
Facet Power, Goodwin Technologies, and Jeni-Eco Meet with Burundi’s President to Share Project Updates and Plan for Private Sector-Led Bioeconomy Development WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, March 4, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- On February 7, 2025,...
Proposed clinical study in Kenya intended to test the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of TNX-801, a vaccine being developed to prevent mpox (formerly called monkeypox) The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a public health...
1 Once Again, and Finally, on the Issue of the Burundian Army in the Highlands I maintain and reaffirm my position. No one has yet approached me about the facts relating to this matter — neither the Government of Kinshasa nor that of Burundi, not...
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, October 30, 2025 – A tragic incident occurred on Tuesday, October 28, at the King Khaled Hospital in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi. Two women who had come to breastfeed their babies in the neonatal unit...
SOS Médias Burundi Ruyigi, September 29, 2025 — A wave of relief is sweeping through refugee camps across Burundi. Food assistance, initially scheduled to be suspended in November, will not be interrupted after all. The World Food Program (WFP)...
By: Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh ActionAid International, in partnership with the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), through a signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ActionAid Liberia, has begun to assess the impacts of the...
The Africa CDC reports over 6,800 deaths in Africa's ongoing cholera outbreak, with nearly 300,000 cases and warnings of further spread due to poor sanitation and lack of clean water. The ongoing cholera outbreak sweeping across Africa has claimed...
KIGALI, Rwanda More than 6,800 people have died from cholera outbreaks sweeping across Africa this year, marking a remarkable increase compared to last year, according to data released Thursday by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and...
SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, October 27, 2025 – On the occasion of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, STEB highlighted the vulnerability of teachers to illnesses related to their working conditions. The President of the Burundi...
Burundi is a hilly, densely populated country in central Africa that is acutely vulnerable to soil erosion. Its steep, long slopes are susceptible to landslides, particularly as vegetation cover is being lost in the quest for firewood and...
For a long time, ecology tended to ignore people. It mostly focused on beautiful places far from large-scale human development: deep rainforest or pristine grassland. Then, in the late 1990s, in the desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, scientists...
3 As Washington reportedly prepares to host leaders of Rwanda and DR Congo on November 13 for the signing of a U.S.-brokered peace accord, serious and credible questions loom over Kinshasa’s sincerity in pursuing genuine peace. The agreement,...
