The World health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced the first confirmed death from Sudan virus disease (same family as Ebola Virus) in Uganda involving a 32-year-old nurse. According to its statement WHO has allocated one million dollars from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies to help accelerate early action following the declaration of the outbreak by Ugandan authorities.

Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the building, which had been encircled by paramilitary fighters since the war erupted in April 2023.

The African country is gripped by a civil war between the army and rebel forces. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than 12 million.

Around 70 individuals have been killed in an assault on El Fasher's only operational hospital in Sudan, as reported by the World Health Organization's Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Sunday.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, was accused in 2017 of downplaying cholera epidemics that hit Ethiopia and Sudan. A group of American doctors ...

Reported attack follows RSF warning In the Saudi hospital attack in El Fasher, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom ... Sudan’s people need peace. The best medicine is peace.” Ghebreyesus ...

Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functioning hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher, Sudan, World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Sunday.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general ... “We continue to call for a cessation of all attacks on health care in Sudan, and to allow full access for the swift restoration of the ...

Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the complex, which paramilitaries had encircled since the war erupted in April 2023. Since the early days of the war,

A male nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola, the first recorded death by the disease in the East African country since an outbreak ended in 2023, health officials said. The 32-year-old nurse worked at Mulago National Specialised Hospital in Kampala, Diana Atwine, permanent secretary of Uganda’s health ministry, said Thursday.

A Ugandan health official says a nurse died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak ended in 2023.