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At least 40 dead in Sudan's worst cholera outbreak in years
AFP, Published on 14/08/2025
» TAWILA — At least 40 people have died in Sudan's Darfur region in the country's worst cholera outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.
Nearly 100,000 struck with cholera in Sudan
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said nearly 100,000 cholera cases had been reported in Sudan since July last year, as it warned of more hunger, displacement and disease to come.
Syria's military hospital where detainees were tortured, not treated
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» DAMASCUS - Former Syrian detainee Mohammed Najib has suffered for years from torture-induced back pain. Yet he dreaded being taken by his jailers to a military hospital, where he received beatings instead of treatment.
'Babies are suffering': Afghans fear for kids at crowded border crossing
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» TORKHAM (AFGHANISTAN) - Khalida's young son fell ill while they were on the road to Afghanistan, racing to leave Pakistan under threat of deportation.
Communications cut to flood-ravaged Libyan city
AFP, Published on 19/09/2023
» DERNA, Libya - Telephone and internet links were severed Tuesday to the flood-hit city of Derna, a day after hundreds protested there against local authorities they blamed for the thousands of deaths.
Live worm found in Australian woman's brain
AFP, Published on 29/08/2023
» SYDNEY: A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes was pulled "alive and wriggling" from a woman's brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said on Tuesday.
Dead rivers, flaming lakes: India's sewage failure
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» NEW DELHI - Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, testament to India's failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage.
'Floating toilets' help Cambodia's lake-dwelling poor
AFP, Published on 20/03/2023
» SIEM REAP (CAMBODIA) - Pointing to the murky waters of the Tonle Sap, Si Vorn fights back tears as she recalls her four-year-old daughter dying from diarrhoea after playing in the polluted lake.
'Threat multiplier': How climate change affects health
AFP, Published on 11/11/2022
» PARIS - Deadlier than Covid, or even rivalling cancer? Researchers have been increasingly attempting to calculate the effect climate change will have on health if the world does not act quickly to reduce carbon emissions.
Uganda leader cracks down on traditional healers to stem Ebola
AFP, Published on 13/10/2022
» KAMPALA - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday ordered traditional healers to stop treating sick people in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, which has already claimed the lives of 19 individuals in the impoverished East African country.