Headlines
  • Two days after catastrophic flash flood struck the border between China and Nepal, rescue workers have resumed searching for hundreds of people who are still missing.
  • At least 538 people killed and another 1,300 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
  • Iran's President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf met with Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister to discuss ongoing efforts to defuse the situation in the region.
  • According to Iran's security chief, Moshen Rezaei, his country is preparing together a list of conditions to submit to the United States in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
  • In an attempt to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America," US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, further escalating his conflict with Canada and its prime minister.
  • Mazloum Abdi, the leader of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been named presidential advisor by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Tag: Ebola Epidemic

December 18, 2018

Meet Benedicte the Miracle Baby: Congo’s...

The UN’s children’s emergency fund says more than 30 percent of cases in this outbreak are children

December 12, 2018

Ebola Effected Children in DRC

UNICEF and its partners have so far identified more than 400 children who have been orphaned or left unaccompanied because of the virus

December 7, 2018

Ebola Survivors in E. DR Congo...

In the three months since the Ebola outbreak began in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the virulent hemorrhagic fever has sparked debate in communities, and even become a talking point for local politicians ahead of the December 23 election

November 13, 2018

Uganda’s Ebola Survivors Recall Disease’s Horrors...

As the Democratic Republic of Congo battles the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, just across the border Ugandan survivors of a 2007 outbreak are reminded of the near-death experience they went through

November 11, 2018

Uganda Readies to Stave Off Ebola...

Ebola has infected 319 people in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo since August, killing 198. 

Top