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The Angolan government has intensified its national risk communication strategy by hosting media professionals at the Public Health Emergency Operations Center (COESP) in Luanda to strengthen public access to reliable information surrounding the ongoing Mpox outbreak.
American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were jointly awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their ground-breaking discoveries concerning photosensitive ion channels and the development of optogenetics.
Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) will deploy its academic expertise to train specialist doctors from Guinea-Bissau under a national medical specialization initiative backed by the World Bank for the 2025–2030 period.
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention urges rapid disbursement and full traceability of $2.9 billion pledged for Ebola response in DRC.
Affected projects to be given short period to wind down operations “responsibly” and complete an “orderly handover.”
G20 foreign ministers and major international donors pledge over US$470 million in new funding to help contain the Ebola outbreak in the DRC.
Zambia set to sign a US health aid deal after Washington dropped conditions linking assistance to health data access and mineral sector preferences.
Deteriorating security conditions at the Kigonze displacement site in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province, are forcing thousands of families to flee and severely hampering humanitarian efforts to contain an escalating Ebola outbreak.
Number of confirmed Ebola cases in DRC surpasses 8,000 amid a shortage of health workers, continued community deaths and the disease’s spread into new areas.
Three southern African countries among only four African nations to commit domestic funding for reproductive health supplies and services.