An estimated 15 million pupils in the East African nation did not attend school for 83 weeks – that’s almost two years.

Three candidate vaccines against the Ebola virus wreaking havoc in Uganda will be shipped to the East African country next week for trials.

Uganda has urged foreign visitors not to cancel plans over fears of the Ebola outbreak in the East African nation.

Uganda is set to close schools nationwide later this month after eight children die from Ebola, the country’s first lady said on Tuesday.

Fears about the impact of lockdown hover over a backdrop of an economy that hasn’t recovered since the COVID-19 pandemic

The World Health Organization warned that Ebola’s arrival in the Ugandan capital highlighted the risk of further spread of the deadly virus.

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to nine, the health ministry said Friday, two weeks after an epidemic erupted.

Uganda’s health ministry has declared an outbreak of Ebola, following the first fatality from the contagious virus since 2019,

The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday that the latest Ebola outbreak was officially over, as the country marked 42 days with no new cases.

The discovery in Ivory Coast comes nearly two months after the UN’s health agency declared an end to Guinea’s second outbreak of Ebola.

The global death toll from COVID-19 passed three million on Saturday 17 April, with the pandemic already having killed more people than most other viral epidemics of the 20th and 21st centuries.

A new outbreak of Ebola has hit West Africa again with reports of the disease striking in Guinea

Measles, coronavirus and Ebola – DR Congo is facing a vicious public health crisis.

No need for alarm – Department of Health officials are expected to comment on the matter later today.

Ebola, a nightmarish disease that bleeds victims to death, has devastated parts of Africa, including the DRC, with its two largest outbreaks in the last five years.

With hundreds of SANDF soldiers moving between South Africa and the Ebola-hit DR Congo over the past month, citizens have voiced their worries.

Less than a month after declaring the DRC Ebola outbreak was not a global health emergency the World Health Organization has changed its mind.

But they are keeping a close eye on the Ebola situation in the country.

It’s been eight months since the start of the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

We look at the latest developments with Pravin Gordhan and his meeting with the Gupta brothers in the South African news today round-up.

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The West African country has been struck by yet another outbreak of the deadly disease.

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With no new cases reported in the last 42 days, Sierra Leone is officially Ebola free.

Doctors have discovered that the virus that has killed up to 11 000 people since last year, can remain in the semen of some men for much longer than the initial three-month estimate.