Category: Others in Africa
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More than 300 deaths in a week and over 2,600 since May. Forty health workers have died, wages have gone unpaid, and 16,000 vaccine doses have arrived for an Ebola species the vaccine was never designed against.
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The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee met for a second time on the Bundibugyo virus epidemic, and WHO published updated recommendations on 24 August. They are more detailed than the first set, and now cover mass gatherings and movement inside the country.
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Video from the Central African Republic appears to show a landslide burying miners at an artisanal gold site. Why pit walls fail, why people work them anyway, and why the death toll from collapses like this is rarely established.
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The RSF-appointed governor of Sudan’s Kordofan region has resigned and says he will defect. Why an armed group appoints governors at all, what a defection signals, and why Kordofan is the region that controls movement between the two halves of the war.
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The DRC outbreak recorded its highest weekly toll to date — 567 cases and 296 deaths — with cumulative figures at 5,290 and 2,516. Why the weekly number matters more than the total, what one imported case in France demonstrated, and the malaria complication.
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At least 22 people were killed in Kebbe, Sokoto State, and almost nobody outside Nigeria reported it. What the word “bandits” conceals, the conditions driving violence in the north-west, and why an attack that recurs stops counting as news.
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Militias loyal to a former state president entered Baidoa, challenging army battalions loyal to the federal president. Why this is not an al-Shabaab story, why army units have personal loyalties, and who benefits when Somali factions fight each other.
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The world’s oldest serving president went to Europe for a brief stay two months ago and has not come back. Why a long absence is a governance question rather than a health rumour, and what is actually observable from outside.
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The UN says 36 aid workers and contractors have been killed in South Sudan this year, past last year’s total with four months still to run. Who those people actually are, what the figure can and cannot tell you, and why prosecutions almost never follow.
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Depot explosions in populated areas happen with grim regularity, from Libya to Chad to Russia. Why munitions sit inside cities, what a “sympathetic detonation” is, why the danger continues after the fire is out, and what the standards actually require.