The World Health Organization head is visiting Uganda, praising its "prompt and capable response" to the Ebola outbreak across the border in DRC's Ituri province. Uganda has logged just a few cases, ...

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tours the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM), during his visit to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union’s health agency have announced a $518m plan to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak in conflict-ridden Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and ...

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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck Uganda on Sunday night, sending tremors across its epicentre in central with parts of western, eastern and sections of the northern corridor reeling from one of the ...

Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus walks to wash his hands at the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM), one of the facilities at the forefront of the ...

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Uganda on Wednesday ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected cases of a rare type of Ebola are surging, and as cases have been confirmed at home after Ugandan health workers were ...

QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK, Uganda — Located about 200 miles from the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, the fears of infection here are low. Yet the anxiety over the consequences of the ...

NAIROBI, May 27 (Reuters) - Uganda has closed its border with neighbouring Democratic ‌Republic of Congo with immediate effect to try to limit the spread of Ebola, Uganda's government said on ...

KAMPALA, May 25 (Reuters) - Uganda has detected two more ‌confirmed cases of Ebola, its health ministry said on Monday, bringing the total number of cases reported in the country to seven. The two new ...