In the northeast of the Congo, five new cases of Ebola infection were registered one day. That has been confirmed by the Ministry of Health. According to the authorities, the increase is not only due to the constant danger that rebel groups form in the Beni region. The aid workers who try to stop the dreaded disease also receive insufficient cooperation from the population.
The number of deaths as a result of the capsized ferry on the Tanzanian part of Lake Victoria has increased to 136. A high police officer has reported this.
A mother and her five-month-old baby were tragically killed in an attack by a crocodile in Uganda. The 40-year-old woman with her baby on her arm, water from the lake and had overlooked the crocodile.
In Uganda, protests broke out on Friday after parliamentarian and pop star Bobi Wine was stopped at the airport. Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, and another opposition member wanted to be treated medically abroad. They would have been tortured when they were in detention.
The vaccination program against the last outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo can start on Wednesday. This has been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Medical first responders will be vaccinated first. After that, the approximately 900 people are identified who have been identified as at risk.
A fleeing elephant killed an eight-year-old boy in Uganda. The animal grabbed the student with his trunk and hit him to the ground, the Daily Monitor newspaper reports.
A toddler of three years old is devoured by a leopard in a national park in Uganda.
Due to an accident with a bus with refugees from Burundi, at least nineteen people were killed in Uganda, mostly children.
The Israeli government has informed the Supreme Court that no deportations are being carried out to African countries. The plan to do that is completely off the track and all announced expulsions expire, Israeli media reported.
At the last minute, Israel sees the planned expulsion of more than 20,000 asylum seekers from Africa. The government wanted to fly them to Rwanda and Uganda in the short term. But the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu sees this, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Monday.
Approximately 25,000 people demonstrated on Saturday night in Tel Aviv against the expulsion of Africans. The demonstration was organized by Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in cooperation with Israelis from the south of the city, where many Africans have settled, the newspaper Haaretz reported.
A flight attendant from the airline Emirates was killed last Wednesday after a fall from the emergency exit of a stationary aircraft. The accident happened at the international airport of Entebbe in Uganda. That reports BBC.
Francis Okello only wanted to die after he was blinded by a grenade at the age of twelve while he was working in his parents' garden. Until he made friends with a dog.
The authorities in Côte d'Ivoire have seized 600 pounds of elephants' tusks. They had an estimated value of more than 360,000 euros.
In the east of Uganda, a fifty-year-old woman passed away from the dangerous marburg virus. Ten employees who took care of her at a hospital in Kapchorwa near the border with Kenya were placed under quarantine, said Health Minister Jane Aceng.
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For the three countries in the Horn of Africa worst affected by drought, the European Union draws 60 million euros extra. In Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, 17 million people are in danger of starvation and cholera. The expectation is that the situation will deteriorate in the coming months.
The budget for the reception of refugees in the region and emergency aid increases by a total of 80 million euros. That was announced by Minister Lilianne Ploumen (Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation) on Friday.
Uganda began withdrawing troops from the Central African Republic. The soldiers were there to hunt warlord Joseph Kony, which is still on the run. However, the mission of the troops is completed, the Ugandan army said on Wednesday.
The killings and atrocities in South Sudan are becoming more like genocide. Therefore, African leaders must take action. That the British Minister for Development Priti Patel said Wednesday after visiting the country.
A drug that is commonly used to treat malaria patients, it has not worked for the first time in the United Kingdom. That raises the question whether the parasite that causes the dreaded disease after transmission through a mosquito resistant to becoming. According to researchers at a specialized medical institution in London is an 'early warning' for Africa.
As an African mobile phone dumps, the unit can come to Europe. Not because there is dialed again with, but to be disassembled. Because in each phone are precious metals, such as gold, silver, copper, palladium and aluminum. Which can be re-used. That saves money and protects the environment. ' We are the garbage men of the telecom world, '' says Joost de Kluijver organization Closing the Loop.
The shooting of a film about a plane hijacking at the airport in Malta Friday afternoon had suddenly interrupted because there was underway a real hijacking.
By tanker exploded in Kenya Saturday at least 25 people were killed. Reported that a spokesman for the Red Cross.
Fighting between security forces and separatist fighters this weekend in western Uganda have fallen 55 deaths. A police spokesman in the region said that fourteen officers and 41 members of a militia in the city of Kasese Saturday were killed. Kasese is located about 250 kilometers west of the capital Kampala.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her entourage took on their journey to Africa, hundreds of Viagra pills.
The number of refugees continues to increase in South Sudan. The United Nations has left 3 million South Sudanese homes for fear of the violence that has been unleashed in the struggle for power. About 1.9 million people have moved to relatively safer areas, the remaining 1.1 million have gone abroad. The UN relief organization estimated the number of displaced people earlier this month still 200,000 lower.
The European Commission allocates € 78 million for emergency aid for the victims of the crisis in South Sudan. By political, violent conflict and the collapse of its economy in recent years hundreds of thousands of civilians fled to neighboring countries.
"When an earthquake in Tanzania at least ten people died and over a hundred injured. Which has informed the Tanzanian police. The quake with a magnitude of 5.7 struck especially the northwestern Kagera region, on Lake Victoria. Also from the border regions are reports of damage."
A deadly African virus is about to spread to America and Europe. Africa is facing the most serious outbreak of yellow fever in thirty years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Angola and Kenya. Meanwhile are also cases surfaced in China, imported by Chinese expatriates returning from Africa.
