Global malaria deaths climbed to an estimated 610,000 in 2024, according to WHO. At the same time, the number of global malaria cases rose to about 282 million — roughly 9 million more than in 2023.
Despite recent advances in prevention and treatment — including expanded use of dual-ingredient insecticide-treated nets, seasonal preventive therapy, and WHO-approved malaria vaccines — the…
On 1 December 2025, the DRC government officially announced the end of the 16th Ebola outbreak in the country, after no new cases were reported for 42 consecutive days following the discharge of the last patient on 19 October 2025. The outbreak — centred in the rural Bulape Health Zone, Kasai Province — had begun on 4 September 2025.
Over the course of the outbreak, health officials…
In early September 2025, health authorities in the DRC declared an Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Kasai Province after a cluster of suspected cases and deaths in Bulape and Mweka health zones. The outbreak, caused by the Zaire strain, follows the fatal illness of a pregnant woman who had presented with haemorrhagic symptoms.
From the start, WHO has moved quickly to mount a…
In early September 2025, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared its 16th Ebola outbreak, centering in Kasai Province. Health authorities confirmed the outbreak on 4 September, after a series of suspected cases and fatalities had emerged.
The index case was a 34-year-old pregnant woman from Boulapé (Bulape), a locality in southern Kasai. She exhibited high fever, vomiting, bloody…
In August 2025, the government of Burkina Faso, led by military ruler Captain Ibrahim Traoré, halted all activities of the Target Malaria project—an initiative funded primarily by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (in collaboration with Open Philanthropy)—that sought to curb malaria by releasing genetically modified mosquitoes.
Background & Scale of the ProjectInitiated in 2012…
In late August 2025, Botswana’s President Duma Boko declared a public health emergency in response to a severe collapse in the country’s medical supply chain. This emergency was triggered by widespread shortages of essential medicines and supplies in hospitals and clinics across the nation.
Origins and Causes
The Ministry of Health had warned earlier in the month of dwindling supply…
A deadly cholera outbreak is sweeping through refugee camps in Sudan, exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis. Thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of whom fled violence from Sudan’s ongoing civil conflict, are now facing a new threat: a fast-spreading waterborne disease fueled by overcrowded living conditions, poor sanitation, and lack of clean…
