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, ...

In west and central Africa, recent heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed ...

The Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Directorate has raised a health alert after confirming two cholera cases within ...

The commissioner said in collaboration with its partners, the ministry had initiated all necessary steps to de-escalate the ...

NIMBA COUNTY, Liberia_ In many parts of the world, especially in low-income regions, the lack of proper Water, Sanitation, ...

A senior official in the Ministry of Health confirmed that samples from suspected cases had been sent to the laboratory for further testing Health ...

Some 4.5 billion people worldwide are currently without adequate access to essential healthcare services, according to the ...

The number of deaths reached 580, the World Health Organization reported, noting new outbreaks of the disease in Niger and Thailand ...

The NCDC particularly raised concern about cholera, Lassa fever, and emerging global threats such as the Marburg virus ...

The International Rescue Committee is warning a sharp increase in cholera cases has emerged in the wake of recent floods in Nigeria and Niger, and is calling for increased resources to scale up ...

Cholera outbreaks have killed 20 persons in Lagos and Niger states in the past week. In Lagos, a couple died on Sunday at the ...