MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A UN official said Tuesday that the situation in Somalia is extremely dire as 7.1 million people are going to be affected by drought before the end of the year unless there is a massive humanitarian effort. Some 6.1 million Somalis have been affected by the drought emergency as of May, […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Seven African countries have cumulatively reported nearly 1,400 monkeypox cases so far this year, with 1,392 suspected and 44 confirmed cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday as the number of infections worldwide continues to climb following the latest outbreak. The cases have been reported in Cameroon, C...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, approaching famine-like conditions, the special presidential envoy for drought response has said. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame said 6.1 million Somalis are facing an extreme level of food insecurity while 330,000 children are facing severe acute malnutrition...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified nine monkeypox cases in seven states, according to multiple reports published on Thursday. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced the new totals during a briefing with reporters, noting that all cases so far found were detected by local laboratorie...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall sacked his health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, on Thursday following a hospital fire in which 11 newborns were killed. In a presidential decree read on public television, Sall named Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye as the new health minister. Ndiaye formerly served as the director general of pu...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Eleven newborn babies died in a fire in the neonatal unit of a hospital in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, the country’s president said late Wednesday. “I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of 11 newborn babies in the fire that occurred in the neonatal department […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case challenging the legality of the 2019 repeal of the religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school. The case was filed by 55 New York families and the non-profit Children’s Health Defense. Lead counsel Michael Sussman said attorneys have argued the case for almost three […]...
GENEVA – More than 250 cases of monkeypox from 16 countries have been officially reported, but the disease can be contained, an expert from the World Health Organization said. Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the head of the Smallpox Secretariat of the WHO Emergencies Program, told journalists at a UN press conference that monkeypox’s risk to t...
GENEVA – The World Health Organization chief has said that it is clear that the world was — and remains — unprepared for a pandemic, calling for support for universal health care and other reform measures. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus delivered his vision for the next five years for the WHO at the 75th World [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Oman has removed all measures and restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the Supreme Committee on COVID-19 said all precautionary measures at all places and outlets were lifted as figures show that the virus has gradually declined. The committee, however, urged people to continue to...
