Cholera vaccinations launched in post-cyclone Mozambique
GENEVA (Reuters) – Health officials launched a vaccination campaign in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit port city of Beira on Wednesday in an effort to contain an outbreak of cholera that has already…
Factbox: Cyclone Idai kills 686, displaces hundreds of thousands
BEIRA, Mozambique (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of food, water and shelter after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Damaged buildings are seen as…
U.S. expands abortion ‘gag rule,’ cuts funding to regional bloc: Pompeo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday expanded its anti-abortion policies, cutting funding to the Organization of American States (OAS) and prohibiting the use of U.S. tax dollars to…
Congo declares new Ebola outbreak in eastern province
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Four people have tested positive for Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo just days after another outbreak that killed 33 people in…
WHO seeks access to Syrians dying from heat, disease in south
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Thursday for access to 210,000 displaced people who have fled fighting in southern Syria and are in urgent need of…
Seventeen deaths reported in Congo as Ebola outbreak confirmed
KINSHASA (Reuters) – At least 17 people have died in an area of northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo where health officials have now confirmed an outbreak of Ebola, the health…
U.N. food agency aims to boost aid to North Korea but lacks funds
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations food agency said its chief would visit North Korea on Tuesday to look into boosting food distributions to hungry women and children, in the…
Two million children in Congo at risk of starvation, U.N. warns
GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 2 million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are estimated to be at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition if they do not…
Food aid convoy enters Syria’s eastern Ghouta as assault pauses: ICRC
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An emergency aid convoy crossed front lines into the besieged rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta on Friday, Red Cross officials said, as a war monitor reported a…