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People living close to the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak have told the BBC of their fear, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned cases may be spreading faster than originally thought. One man in the Democratic Republic of Congo's north-eastern Ituri province, the epicentre of the outbreak, said infected people were dying "very fast", and added: "Ebola has tortured us." The virus has killed 131 people in the […]
An American tested positive for Ebola after being exposed while working with a medical missionary group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, US officials say. The US national was being evacuated to Germany for treatment after developing symptoms over the weekend, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At least 131 deaths have been reported in an Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo, with more than 513 […]
A South Korean woman has been acquitted after a court revisited her decades-old conviction for biting off the tongue of a man during an alleged sexual attack. Choi Mal-ja was 18 when she was convicted of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to 10 months in jail. Her aggressor, who was 21, received a lighter sentence of six months. After a years-long campaign to clear her name, a retrial began in […]
A paedophile who stole a terminally ill man's identity and spent almost three decades on the run has been convicted of 54 child sex abuse charges. Richard Burrows "acted like a coward and fled the country" leaving his victims to suffer, police said after he was convicted at Chester Crown Court. During his trial this year, the court was told he had abused boys as young as nine while a […]
The incoming regional director of the World Health Organization in Africa, Tanzania’s Dr Faustine Ndugulile, has died, months after he was elected to the position. Ndugulile, a 55-year-old lawmaker and a medical doctor, died on Wednesday morning in India while undergoing treatment, Tanzania's speaker of parliament said. He is known for having stood up to President John Magufuli at the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020, when he served […]
The World Health Organization, WHO Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) 2023–2027 Nigeria is to be unveiled in a few days. The Technical Officer, WHO, AMR, Dr Laxmikant Chavan made this known in Akwanga, the Nassarawa state capital, at the 7th Annual Conference of the Association of Nigeria Health Journalists (ANHEJ), with the theme, "Health Security: Nigeria’s Efforts to Achieve Universal Health Coverage. The CCS is expected to set out how the […]
A 26-year-old Australian woman, Annie Knight, has reportedly lost her corporate job after her work discovered her secret OnlyFans account. According to DailyMail, she shared her experience on SBS’ Insight on Tuesday, saying she was shocked she was dismissed from a corporate role. Knight, who claims to be in the top 0.4 per cent of creators on OnlyFans, said she did have apprehensions when she first ventured into the platform but didn’t […]
Okoye Blessing Nwakaego, a woman who defamed veteran actress Eniola Badmus by calling her a pimp, has been sentenced to three years in prison for cyberstalking. Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal high court convicted her on two counts of cyberstalking on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, after she pled guilty to the charges. He added that the offense contravened sections 24 (1) (b), (2) (a) (c), and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, […]
