Her daughter is one of more than 6,000 people officials suspect have contracted the disease in South Kivu province, the ...

UN Undersecretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix said December 31, 2024, which was supposed to be the date for the total ...

KAMITUGA, Congo -- Slumped on the ground over a mound of dirt, Divine Wisoba pulled weeds from her daughter's grave. The ...

Unlike the millions of dollars that poured into Congo for Ebola and COVID aid, the response to mpox has been sluggish, many ...

Health officials have zeroed in on Kamituga, a remote yet bustling gold mining town of some 300,000 people that attracts ...

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing probl ...

UNICEF and partners are scaling up the emergency response in the DRC, Burundi and other countries in Africa, but more donor ...

Several hundred high-risk individuals were inoculated in Rwanda. Meanwhile, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the outbreak in Africa is still not under control, with ...

Mpox spread to the eastern province of South Kivu in September 2023 and scientists identified a new strain that could be more ...

The security situation is marked by recurrent clashes, massacres of civilians and massive population displacements.

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly ...