and Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe confirmed the presence of the Sudan Ebola virus disease,” Aceng said. This outbreak marked Uganda’s eighth confirmed Ebola outbreak. As of ...

Uganda's borders have always been busy and vulnerable. Over the past decade, Ebola, COVID-19, leptospirosis, Marburg, measles ...

Ebola vaccine trial Last week, Uganda launched a trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus. The WHO is collaborating with Uganda’s ministry of health, the Uganda Virus ...

On 3 February the Ugandan Health Ministry and the World Health Organisation began a clinical trial for a vaccine targeting the Sudan variant of the Ebola virus. The lead researchers are from Makerere ...

The Republic of South Sudan and a significant part of Northern Uganda share a long and tumultuous history of violence. The two regions have borne the brunt of decades-long armed conflicts that have ...

In a letter to the UN in early 2024, South Sudan’s First Vice President, Riek Machar, accused Uganda of “grave violation” of the arms embargo following the Ugandan armed forces deployment into South ...

A UN aid convoy en route to el-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region was attacked, resulting in the deaths of five aid workers. Unicef and WFP jointly reported the incident, condemning it as a violation ...

Cholera is treatable, however weak health infrastructure has led to deaths in Sudan from the illness War-torn Sudan is now "on the brink" of a public health disaster as cholera and other deadly ...

Sudan's new Prime Minister Kamil Idris has dissolved the country's caretaker government, state news agency SUNA reported late on Sunday. SUNA did not specify when a new government, the first since ...

This report, prepared by Sudanile, is published by the Sudan Media Forum and its member organizations to highlight the challenges facing the Sudanese refugees in Uganda.

An ambush on a United Nations food aid convoy in Sudan has killed at least five people, blocking urgently needed supplies from reaching civilians facing starvation in the war-torn Darfur city of ...

A general view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from a fuel depot after what military sources told Reuters is a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drone attack in Port Sudan targeting fuel ...