A new, unidentified illness has been reported in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is buffeted ...

If the Taliban takes his parents and three sisters, he’ll return to Afghanistan and surrender. That way, at least, they will ...

Multiple African countries report community transmission of the virus and travel-associated cases have come up in several ...

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The US withdrawal will not officially happen until January 2026, so there will be months of uncertainty over budgets and ...

ANDREW NATSIOS served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush ...

Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Facts Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of ...

Far from offering a lifeline during the 90-day U.S. foreign aid freeze, waivers have become a stark illustration of systemic ...

Uganda hosts 1.8 million refugees and asylum-seekers, the largest number of any African country. But without US funding, ...

A virus originally found in animals, mpox -- which causes the disease of the same name -- is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the cause of major epidemics spreading outside endemic ...

Dozens of mpox patients being treated in hospital isolation units in Goma have fled for their lives as violence engulfs the ...

M23 fighters on Friday seized the airport serving Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just as African leaders ...