Aid teams from the UN World Health Organization ( WHO) “cannot move freely to support the hospitals, even ambulances cannot ...

British foreign secretary laments lack of global attention to crises in Africa compared with conflicts in other regions - ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels are moving south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in what ...

As UN agencies reported "relative calm" on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the serious violations of human rights, the ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

There are growing international calls for peace talks to end the escalation of violence in the east of the Democratic ...

By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen has covered health and development issues ... a scrappy mining town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 1,200 miles from where mpox was ...

The World Health Organization is shaped by its members: 194 countries that set health priorities and make agreements about ...

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization ... safe from health threats unless the entire world is safe. He noted that when Ebola struck a war-torn part of Congo in 2018 ...

About 120,000 children have been forced from their homes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... in various health facilities around Goma as the violence continues. Conflict in DRC has ...

President Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. It was among dozens of executive ...