Schoolchildren in Kenya are set to return to the classroom on October 19 – for the first time since Covid-19 restrictions closed education facilities across the country – under new proposals.
Kenya has announced that all schools in the country will remain closed until January as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
More than 6,000 people have been killed by the measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Aid groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say the number of Ebola cases in the country’s outbreak are set to exceed 2,000.
The number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) Ebola outbreak has passed 1,000, the country’s health ministry says.
The number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has surpassed 1,000 and the daily rate of confirmed cases is on the rise, according to Rescue.org.
East Africa: Is deforestation hampering the fight against malaria?
The fight against malaria in East Africa is stalling. A number of financial, environmental and human-caused factors contribute to rising death rates from the disease in parts of the region, which remains one of the worst regions in the world.
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