DRC: Half a million displaced and without clean drinking water
June 3, 2021Hundreds of thousands of people have been left displaced, and over half a million in the city of Goma have been left without access to clean drinking water, following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While...
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DRC Ebola outbreak: Improved medical response sees the end of DRC’s eleventh Ebola outbreak
November 19, 2020The Ebola outbreak in Équateur province, northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has come to an end almost six months after it started thanks to an improved approach to patient care, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).The outbreak, the eleventh...
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DRC Ebola outbreak crisis update: June 2020
June 14, 2020New outbreak declared in Equateur province On 1 June 2020, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared its eleventh Ebola outbreak since records began, following the revelation of new cases of Ebola in Equateur province, northwestern DRC. Less than two years since the...
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DRC ebola outbreak: Independent Ebola vaccination committee is needed to overcome lack of WHO transparency
September 23, 2019PARIS/GOMA – More than a year into the ongoing Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the disease has killed over 2,000 people. The mortality rate in this outbreak is around 67 per cent [1], which is comparable...
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