Second Ebola patient dies in Uganda, death toll rises in DRC

Monkeypox is generally a mild disease that passes without the need for intensive treatment. But for Harun Tulunay, an unusually severe case left him hospitalised. Tulunay, 35, a sexual health advocate who is HIV positive, said he was given a series of misdiagnoses ranging from tonsillitis to a problem with his HIV medication. It was only after his symptoms became so severe that he began to have trouble swallowing that he was admitted to hospital.

At least 15 people have been killed during violent protests directed against the UN in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Protestors say a long-serving UN peacekeeping mission in the country has failed to protect civilians from militia violence.

Campaigners have called the suspension "a witch hunt" and say it will prevent them from carrying out lifesaving work in the conservative East African country.

A new case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in the city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) said on Monday.

The EU raises serious questions about the actions of energy giant TotalEnergies in Uganda, with members of parliament saying its oil pipeline project has led to evictions and arrests. Also in this edition: The United Nations publishes a report shedding light on increased human rights violations in Burkina Faso. And finally: The tourism industry in Tunisia says goodbye to a better summer season than last year, but still far from what the country was used to before the pandemic.

On 21 August 2022, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that a new laboratory-confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) had been detected in a 46-year-old woman living in the city of Beni, in the province of North Kivu.

A lockdown is now in place in the two central districts of Uganda where Ebola has claimed at least 19 lives. Most of the country's immediate neighbors are taking action to keep the deadly virus out.

At least eleven students died, and six others were in critical condition after a fire in a school for the blind in central Uganda, police said on Tuesday.

A DW journalist has been given unprecedented access to rebel-controlled gold mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Miners and civilians are forced to risk their lives, while the wealthy buy gold in the global north.

M23 rebels have made gains in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, raising fears of a further deterioration of security. The African Union has called for a ceasefire and negotiations to ensure peace.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it's Incident Coordination Centre is now in alert mode, as well as other measures to prevent the potential outbreak of the Sudan strain Ebola Virus detected in Uganda in September this year.

Intense fighting in DR Congo's North Kivu province is leading to major population displacement. We take a closer look. But first, Algeria hosts its first Arab League summit since the Covid-19 pandemic.