The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s volatile east is now the second largest in recorded history, with 426 confirmed and probable cases thus far, resulting in 245 deaths since Aug. 1, according to the country’s health ministry. … Read More
George Soros has a gift for knowing when social change is coming—and when the cultural and political processes we take for granted are about to collapse. It’s that sensitivity that thrust the wildly successful investor, political activist, and philanthropist into … Read More
AFP/Getty Twenty-three people are known to have died. The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly hard to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a … Read More
The UN and partners have launched a plan to vaccinate 1 billion people against yellow fever in Africa. A mass vaccination campaign in West Africa is a model to eliminate the disease. Nearly 1 billion people in Africa will be … Read More
Nine-year-old died in central Uganda with symptoms of an eye-bleeding disease which could kill up to 40 per cent of those infected by it. The outbreak comes months after hundreds of people were killed by the plague in Madagascar in … Read More
Famine. 20 million people now on the brink in Africa and the Middle East. We’ve got reporters on the frontlines. Right now, today, the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II is unfolding from Yemen to Nigeria. 20 million people … Read More