Cholera cases on the rise in African states

Cholera cases on the rise in African states

The World Health Organization (WHO) says cholera cases in 2022 more than doubled from the previous year, with reported cases in 44 countries. The cholera statistics released Friday found large outbreaks in seven countries, five of them on the African continent. Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Nigeria and…

Laureen Fagan

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

Nigeria prepares for floods due to Cameroon dam releases

Nigeria prepares for floods due to Cameroon dam releases

Nigeria’s emergency management agency says it’s keeping close watch on river levels, following the decision in neighboring Cameroon to release water from the Lagdo Dam. Humanitarian affairs minister Betta Edu has recommended that frontline communities living in about a dozen states along the Benue River should begin preparing for high…

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UN warns Sudan conflict has potential to destabilize region

UN warns Sudan conflict has potential to destabilize region

A week-long ceasefire in Sudan may lead to talks, but fighting in Sudan still has the potential to cause additional regional instability and the United Nations has again called for both sides in Sudan to put the interest of the Sudanese people first and foremost. “The ongoing conflict in Sudan,…

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African delegates welcome long-awaited UN High Seas Treaty

African leaders are celebrating news of successful negotiations for a High Seas Treaty, the long-awaited United Nations agreement to protect global oceans and ecosystems through international cooperation. The treaty, approved by delegates to the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), follows years of talks that…

Laureen Fagan

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

Marburg virus confirmed in EG, region steps up health measures

Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease, with at least nine fatalities that have forced a lockdown in Nsok Nsomo and the Kie Ntem district near the border with Gabon and Cameroon. Officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) said samples were taken from those infected…

Laureen Fagan

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

Gabon, Cameroon step up health measures following EG deaths

In Equatorial Guinea, there’s not yet a confirmed diagnosis of the suspected hemorrhagic fever illness that has claimed up to 20 lives and forced a lockdown in the Nsok Nsomo and Kie Ntem districts near the border with Gabon and Cameroon. Health officials on Sunday were still waiting for laboratory…

Laureen Fagan

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

Macron wraps up three-nation African tour in Guinea-Bissau

President Emmanuel Macron of France wrapped up a three-nation tour of West Africa with a visit to Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, meeting with President Úmaro Sissoco Embaló to discuss regional security issues. His meeting with Embaló, who took over this month as commissioner of the Economic Community of West African States…

Separatist ADF denies human rights violations in Cameroon conflict

A leading Anglophone separatist group has denied allegations made by the Amnesty International organization over threats and violence towards human rights workers in Ambazonian territories that have broken away from Cameroon. The response from Capo Daniel, defense chief of the Ambazonia Defense Forces (ADF) aligned with the Ambazonia Governing Council…

Global monkeypox case counts rise outside of West Africa

Another case of monkeypox is under investigation in the United States, one of 12 nations seeing transmission of a virus strain linked to West Africa. The latest case, reported Sunday in the U.S. state of Florida, is believed to be linked to international travel. The World Health Organization says confirmed…

Cameroon marks National Day with Biya address

President Paul Biya of Cameroon has kept a low profile in recent months but delivered a televised address to the troubled West African nation to mark its National Day, one muted by the coronavirus pandemic and the absence of festivities. The 87-year-old Biya focused on the COVID-19 crisis during his…

Cameroon denies military was responsible for last week’s massacre

Cameroon’s government is denying allegations that its military was involved in a massacre last week in the village of Ngarbuh, a community in the country’s Northwest Anglophone region. Spokesman René Emmanuel Sadi, speaking to reporters Tuesday, said the accusations against security forces were false. “Without the slightest preliminary investigation, several…

Moeti remains WHOAFRO chief as continent focuses on coronavirus

WHO held its executive board meeting in Geneva on Monday, with Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, reappointed to her position. Yet much of the meeting focused on the 2019nCov outbreak, which was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on Thursday. China’s latest update…