The floods – the most devastating in recent years with unprecedented scale and severity – have mainly affected Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, and displaced more than 500 000 people, ...

The seventh pandemic of cholera—an easily preventable and treatable disease—has claimed millions of lives since 1961, driven ...

Cholera is a waterborne disease caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria of the serogroups 01 and 139, usually occurring due to inadequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene. This ...

Secondly, there are increasing numbers of disease outbreaks – not just disease threats – including mpox, dengue fever, ...

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Increased flooding is also likely to spread malaria and other vector-borne diseases, as well as diarrhoeal diseases like cholera – the seventh biggest ... an important step toward reducing the adverse ...

South Sudan is witnessing some of its worst flooding in decades that has caused widespread devastation in several parts of ...

More than five million Nigerians have been displaced by floods between 2012 and 2022. However, a vast majority of this large number of ...

South Sudan is experiencing some of the worst flooding in decades, causing widespread devastation across the country. Over 226,000 people have been displaced, with homes and livelihoods severely ...

South Sudan is witnessing some of its worst flooding in decades that has caused widespread devastation in several parts of the country and has so far left more than 226 000 people displaced, homes, ...