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India, US eye 5-fold increase in commerce

Eyeing to increase 2-way commerce by 5 times from the current level of $ 100 billion, India and the US have vowed to...

28 Sep 2013 9:03 AM GMT

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Congo's Ebola outbreak now 2nd largest in history, says WHO

WHO emergencies chief Dr. Peter Salama late Thursday called it 'a sad toll'.

30 Nov 2018 3:31 AM GMT

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Ebola in Congo now infecting newborn babies: WHO

Six cases were reported in children aged between 2 and 17 and one case was in a pregnant woman.

23 Nov 2018 3:01 PM GMT

An Ebola health worker is seen at a treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. (Photo: AP)

Congolese city of Goma confirms case of Ebola

The passengers and the bus driver will begin getting vaccinations on Monday.

15 July 2019 12:13 PM GMT

Ghotu Ram Meena is expected to take up the assignment shortly. (Photo: ANI)

Ghotu Ram Meena is India's new envoy to Republic of Congo

India and the Republic of Congo enjoy warm and friendly relations.

9 Aug 2019 7:38 AM GMT

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (AFP)

WHO hopes to work with US on Ebola despite recent conflict

12 people had been infected with Ebola in the outbreak of the deadly disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo on...

11 Jun 2020 9:29 AM GMT

Health workers don protective clothing as they prepare to attend to patients in the isolation ward to diagnose and treat suspected Ebola patients, at Bikoro Hospital in Bikoro, the rural area where the Ebola outbreak was announced last week, in Congo. Congos latest Ebola outbreak has now spread to Mbandaka, a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas. (Photo: AP)

Fear and suspicion hinder Congo medics in Ebola battle

Health officials working hard to get out accurate information about deadly hemorrhagic fever but face significant...

26 May 2018 2:37 AM GMT

Health workers don protective clothing as they prepare to attend to patients in the isolation ward to diagnose and treat suspected Ebola patients, at Bikoro Hospital in Bikoro, the rural area where the Ebola outbreak was announced last week, in Congo. Congos latest Ebola outbreak has now spread to Mbandaka, a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas. (Photo: AP)

WHO lauded for fast Ebola action in Congo

So far, 52 confirmed, likely or suspected cases of the deadly virus have been registered in DRC, including 22 deaths.

25 May 2018 3:47 PM GMT

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Congo Ebola outbreak: Confirmed cases rise to 31, Catholic priest...

Ebola spreads through contact with bodily fluids and is both highly infectious and extremely lethal.

25 May 2018 10:57 AM GMT

Many even suspect clinics as facilities to harvest organs from unsuspecting locals and send them to Europe for transplant (Photo: AFP)

Congo Ebola outbreak: Victims refuse treatment because of superstition...

Distrust towards western medicines fuelled by a history of colonisation is causing problems for health responders.

24 May 2018 10:37 AM GMT

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has deployed 25 epidemiologists to Mbandaka and Bikoro to support the governments surveillance work. (Photo: AP)

2 more dead; 7 new cases confirmed in Congo Ebola outbreak

One of the deaths occurred in Mbandaka, according to a daily healthy ministry bulletin.

23 May 2018 2:59 AM GMT

Dr. Guyauma Ngoyi Mwamba, centre, representative of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Expanded Program on Immunization, is administered with a vaccine during a vaccination campaign in Mbandaka, Congo Monday, May 21, 2018. Congos health minister says a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern town where the outbreak began, as the country begins a vaccination campaign. (Photo: AP)

Congo Ebola outbreak: Nurse becomes 27th victim to die from deadly...

The nurse's death brings the toll to 27, with 49 cases of hemorrhagic fever, of which 22 have been confirmed as Ebola.

22 May 2018 9:36 AM GMT