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DRC On 14 July, the first Ebola case was detected in Goma, the economic hub of Nord Kivu and home to 1.2 million people located on the shores of Lake Kivu at the Rwandan border. After cross-border...

New doses to vaccinate more than 18 million children against Measles and Rubella in September 2019 KAMPALA, Thursday, 18 July 2019 – Over 20 million doses of Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccine have arrived...

Yei was South Sudan’s second biggest town before the civil war forced people out of the country in 2016. Three years later, conditions in Uganda’s refugee settlements and a hope of peace push people...

EBOLA: GETTING THE FACTS STRAIGHT On the edge of the circle a middle-aged man raises his hand and slowly starts to speak. “I hear that Ebola is the result of witchcraft,” he says in a tone that’s...

This Quarterly Mixed Migration Update (QMMU) covers the East Africa and Yemen region (EAY). The core countries of focus for this region are Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi,...

The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) plans to empower the Election Management Bodies in the region as a strategy to lessen incidents of violence that results from the...

Cette semaine, la flambée de maladie à virus Ebola (MVE), qui frappe les provinces du Nord-Kivu et de l’Ituri en République démocratique du Congo s’est poursuivie à une intensité de transmission...

Introduction Between conflict, poverty, malnutrition and an Ebola outbreak, humanitarian needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are among the highest in the world. Almost 13 million people...

By Collins Omulo In Summary The Kenyan government has said that the cross-border peace agreement to be signed between Kenya and Uganda will benefit four million Pokot, Karamoja and Turkana people...

Cholera prevention measures in Tigray and Afar Camps: Following the Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s declaration of the outbreak of a cholera epidemic in at least five regions, including Tigray...