https://sagire.online/topic/global-health/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/a7ec2144/https://sagire.online/wire/a7ec2144/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:22:00 -0300Nearly 164 million Africans are estimated to be facing acute food insecurity, according to the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. Conflict remains the primary driver of acute food insecurity on the continent: roughly 134 million people, or 80% of those falling under this classification in Africa, including all of those in famine, are in countries experiencing conflict. Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan and Ethiopia account for 60% of the people who are acutely food insecure on the continent.AfricaConflictGlobal healthEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/cf2bef37/https://sagire.online/wire/cf2bef37/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the country’s worst in decades. According to Tedros, in a Sputnik text republished by Nampa, more than 60,000 cases and 1,800 deaths from cholera have been reported in the country this year. WHO counts 1,800 cholera deaths in the country in 2026.Democratic Republic of the CongoAfricaGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/5613d446/https://sagire.online/wire/5613d446/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:23:00 -0300The World Health Organization (WHO) approved clinical trials for two new Ebola vaccines on Wednesday, as an outbreak in Africa has killed more than 5,300 people. The candidates are ChAdOx1 BDBV, developed by the University of Oxford with the Serum Institute of India, and Moderna’s mRNA-1469, both designed specifically for the Bundibugyo virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the trial that began last month with the Ervebo vaccine does not cover the Bundibugyo virus and that the agency’s expert groups now recommend adding the two candidates to the study. The National Institute for Biomedical Research of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) leads the trial, backed by partners including WHO. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Monday that the epidemic had killed more than 5,300 people, the majority in the DRC, with 10,444 confirmed cases and a fatality rate above 50 percent.United NationsGlobal healthDemocratic Republic of the CongoAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/bf0eeee7/https://sagire.online/wire/bf0eeee7/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:24:00 -0300The World Health Organization (WHO) said cholera has killed around 1,800 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) so far this year, a country also battling its deadliest Ebola outbreak, according to AFP, in a text republished by Medical Xpress. Some 60,000 cases of the disease have been recorded in what the WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described as the country’s “worst cholera outbreak in decades.” Most of the infections were detected in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, prey to a litany of armed groups and partly under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 militia, Tedros said. He said the concern now is that cases are following the Congo River basin, which means the outbreak could stretch up to Kinshasa. The mortality rate is around 3%, which is high for cholera.Democratic Republic of the CongoGlobal healthHealth https://sagire.online/wire/260199aa/https://sagire.online/wire/260199aa/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:24:00 -0300A British healthcare worker infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is being medically evacuated to Britain, in stable condition, expected to arrive on Wednesday or Thursday, according to an official document seen by Reuters. The British government confirmed that a British citizen in the DRC had tested positive and said the risk to the UK public remains low. It is the first case involving a British national linked to the current outbreak, and the patient had been sent to the DRC by a humanitarian organization. The outbreak is the second-largest on record, with more than 10,000 confirmed cases and nearly 5,000 deaths reported by late October.United KingdomDemocratic Republic of the CongoGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/9c76c92d/https://sagire.online/wire/9c76c92d/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:22:00 -0300The World Health Organization (WHO) approved clinical trials for two new Ebola vaccines as part of the effort to control an outbreak that has killed more than 5,300 people in Africa. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the two candidates are ChAdOx1 BDBV, developed by the University of Oxford with the Serum Institute of India, and Moderna's mRNA-1469, developed specifically for the Bundibugyo virus. The National Institute of Biomedical Research of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is leading the trial, with support from partners including WHO; in October a trial had already begun with the Ervebo vaccine, approved for Ebola virus but not for Bundibugyo. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that the epidemic had killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority in the DRC, with 10,444 confirmed cases and a fatality rate above 50%.United NationsGlobal healthAfricaDemocratic Republic of the Congo https://sagire.online/wire/510e3fc8/https://sagire.online/wire/510e3fc8/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:21:00 -0300According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), thousands of people are displaced in the city of Debre Berhan, in the Amhara region, and in Shire, in northwestern Tigray. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said families who had recently returned to the district of Diabo, in northwestern Tigray, were forced to flee again because of renewed military activities. OCHA and humanitarian partners are preparing to scale up assistance, but insecurity is restricting movement along the roads connecting Gonder with Debark and Metema, in Amhara. Fighting in the country's north, in Tigray, Amhara and Afar, resumed in late September, nearly four years after the November 2022 Pretoria Agreement ended the two-year war between federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported civilian deaths, including children and a newborn, in attacks in northern Ethiopia and said the region's health system is approaching collapse.EthiopiaConflictAfricaGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/0e914a31/https://sagire.online/wire/0e914a31/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:22:00 -0300According to Middle East Eye, the World Medical Association faces strong criticism for refusing to suspend the Israeli Medical Association despite documented allegations of complicity by Israeli doctors in the torture of Palestinian detainees and abuses in Gaza; a petition by 6,500 medical personnel from the IMA Out! campaign was presented to the General Assembly in Rotterdam last month calling for expulsion; the last suspension came in 1976, when South Africa was blocked from two assemblies over doctors’ complicity in torture under apartheid; and the Hind Rajab Foundation asked the International Criminal Court last month to investigate Israeli doctors, the IMA and officials from the health and defense ministries.IsraelPalestineGazaHuman rightsGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/98c929d8/https://sagire.online/wire/98c929d8/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:20:00 -0300Health authorities in Nigeria confirmed on Monday that the two suspected Ebola cases investigated in the country’s northeast tested negative after two rounds of testing, with both people isolated while teams carried out contact identification and laboratory testing.NigeriaGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/ae15868a/https://sagire.online/wire/ae15868a/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:22:00 -0300New York state reported the first measles-linked child death in over 30 years, amid an outbreak. The case is the state’s first measles-linked death in more than three decades, according to the South China Morning Post.United StatesHealthGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/e0655017/https://sagire.online/wire/e0655017/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:21:00 -0300The Ebola outbreak has killed 5,376 people — 5,372 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and two each in Kenya and Uganda, with 10,414 confirmed cases in the country as of October 30. The current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain, with no known vaccine or treatment.Democratic Republic of the CongoAfricaHealthGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/8088ac06/https://sagire.online/wire/8088ac06/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:22:00 -0300Health authorities in Nigeria are investigating two suspected Ebola cases in the country’s northeast, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said on Saturday. The two individuals have been isolated while officials carry out contact identification, listing and laboratory testing, the agency said in a post on X.NigeriaGlobal healthHealthAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/4398b020/https://sagire.online/wire/4398b020/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 04:23:00 -0300The Ebola death toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has passed 5,000, according to government data cited by Al Jazeera, in an outbreak declared in May that is already the country’s deadliest on record. More than 10,000 people have been infected, and there are no approved treatments or vaccines against the rare Bundibugyo strain.Democratic Republic of the CongoGlobal healthHealthAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/8b47c72d/https://sagire.online/wire/8b47c72d/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:23:00 -0300The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has surpassed 5,000, government data showed on Friday, Reuters reported.Democratic Republic of the CongoGlobal healthHealthAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/04f17ffa/https://sagire.online/wire/04f17ffa/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:22:00 -0300Pollution from smoke emitted by months of wildfires across Indonesia caused an estimated 3,560 deaths in the archipelago in September, according to a new study cited by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) — non-fire pollution from power generation, industry and transport caused a further 1,750 deaths in the month, for a total of 5,310 in the country of about 290 million people.IndonesiaSoutheast AsiaGlobal healthClimate