Scientists in the US have warned that the shortage of yellow fever vaccines could spark a global health emergency. An outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral disease has killed 277 people in Angola since December, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). An article in the Journal of t...

(Refiles to correct date) * Early victims, with fake papers, traced to restaurant * Experts stymied at first by unexplained deaths in December * Technicians ran yellow fever test by chance * Health officials rue missed early opportunities, cost By Ed Cropley LUANDA, June 10 (Reuter...

Soixante-sept cas ont été diagnostiqués et cinq personnes sont mortes de la maladie, a-t-il indiqué. La plupart des personnes atteintes de la maladie l’auraient contractée en Angola, un pays voisin de la RDC et touché par l’épidémie depuis plusieurs semaines, a précisé Félix Kabange. Mais selo...

* Densely populated capital key concern for doctors * Global stockpile of vaccines running low * Outbreak coincides with economic crisis, political tensions (Adds details, comment from WHO) KINSHASA, June 20 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared a yellow fever epidemic...

Dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo, depuis l'an dernier, le phénomène des kidnappings est en plein essor. L'organisation de défense des droits de l'homme Human Rights Watch avait parlé en 2015 d'au moins 175 personnes enlevées, pour l'essentiel dans le Rutshuru, avec demande de rançon...

En RDC, les évêques se disent inquiets de la situation politique actuelle. Ils l'ont fait savoir dans une déclaration lue ce lundi 27 juin à Kinshasa, à l'issue de la 53e réunion de la Conférence épiscopale nationale du Congo (Cenco). « Cette situation inquiétante qui risque de plonger le pays da...

By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in Niger travel miles by donkey cart to health centres in the hope of getting food for their malnourished infants, leaving their vegetable gardens unattended and chores undone, only to be turned away with nothing. Children ...

Bijou Ngunzoni Fatuma, 42, is a refugee from Central African Republic living in Boyabu camp in Equateur, province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her torment began on the 6th May 2013 when her husband and his second wife were assassinated. “My neighbor came running to tell me that my husband an...

Baudouin Yengo, 14, is a young Congolese who returned to Libenge in Equateur Province, northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Baudouin and his family have spent 4 years at Batalimo refugee camp in the Central African Republic. “I know that we fled Libenge because there was something wr...

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