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Cholera suspected as cause of mystery deaths in besieged Sudan town

Cairo, Egypt/Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Dozens of escaped residents of the besieged town of al-Hilaliya in Sudan’s El Gezira state have tested positive for cholera, a medical source told Reuters, in a development that provides a likely explanation for the reported deaths of hundreds there. While local activists say that more than 300 people […]

Nigeria’s Borno state hit by cholera amid flood devastation

Abuja, Nigeria Reuters A cholera outbreak has hit Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, already reeling from floods that displaced nearly two million people, an official said on Friday. Cholera outbreaks are not uncommon in Borno, the epicentre of a 15-year-old Islamist insurgency that has displaced thousands into camps and strained sanitation facilities and potable water sources. […]

Libya’s flood-ravaged Derna struggles to cope with thousands of corpses

People walk amidst the wreckage, in the aftermath of the floods in Derna, Libya, on 15th September, 2023

Derna, Libya Reuters Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea. The World Health Organization and other aid groups urged authorities in Libya to stop […]

Cholera death toll rises to over 420 in Cameroon

Yaounde, CameroonReuters A further 26 people have died in Cameroon’s ongoing cholera outbreak in the past two weeks, taking the overall death toll to 426, a health ministry official said on Thursday. The outbreak was declared in October 2021 and has seen a strong increase in cases since late March of this year after a […]

South Africans blame city as cholera cases rise

Deputy Ministers of Water Affairs, David Mahlobo and Health, Sibongiseni Dhlomo along with other officials brief the media over the death of 15 people during a cholera outbreak at Jubilee District Hospital in Hammanskraal, South Africa, on 22nd May, 2023

Hammanskraal, South Africa Reuters South Africans on Monday blamed their local government for failing to provide clean water as deaths from cholera rose to 15 in the country’s most populous province.  The health department in Gauteng province declared a cholera outbreak on Sunday in Hammanskraal, an area about 50 kilometres north of capital Pretoria, in […]

Syria quake aid blocked from parts of Aleppo province, Amnesty says

FILE PHOTO: Syrian woman Amina Raslan sits with her son and her grandchildren, at her son's partially damaged home, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Aleppo, Syria February 13, 2023. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi/File Photo

Beirut, Lebanon Reuters The Syrian Government and Turkey-backed rebel forces have blocked more than 100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid from entering two zones in Aleppo province hit by last month’s deadly earthquake, Amnesty International said on Monday.  The aid, which included food, medical supplies, tents and fuel, was sent by Kurdish authorities, the rights group […]

Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya

Dool Abdirahman Ismael, 26, a Somali refugee, carries her child Hikimo Mohamed as he receives treatment for malnutrition inside the International Rescue Committee (IRC) stabilization ward at the Hagadera Main Hospital in the Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, in Garissa County, Kenya, January 16, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Dadaab, Kenya Reuters When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somalia and walked for three days through swirling dust and scorching heat to the Dadaab Refugee Camp just across the border in Kenya.  Ismael, 26, said she had hoped Dadaab would be free of the hunger and […]

Malawi cholera death toll crosses 1,300: health official

Eliza Tangwe, 18, takes a dose of oral cholera vaccine at a health centre in response to the latest cholera outbreak in Blantyre, Malawi, November 16, 2022.

Johannesburg, South Africa Reuters The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Malawi has crossed 1,300, a senior Malawian health official said on Thursday, as the southern African country battles its deadliest outbreak yet. As of Wednesday, Malawi had recorded 40,284 cholera cases and 1,316 deaths in an outbreak that started in March, 2022, with […]

Haitian children are vulnerable in capital’s violence, UNICEF says

Haiti Port au Prince tyre barricade

Reuters More than one million Haitian children are under constant threat of violence in the area of the capital Port-au-Prince because of chronic lawlessness, the regional director of children’s agency UNICEF said on Friday. A demonstrator moves a tyre to a burning barricade during a protest for the recent killings of police officers by armed […]