Ebola spread in central Africa could match 2014 record outbreak, US health officials sayModelling from US CDC shows Ebola spread could be on 'dangerous trajectory', but experts warn outbreaks can be very hard to predict Central Africa's Ebola outbreak could spread to be similar in scale to the worst outbreak in history, west Africa's 2014-2016 outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people, according to a new analysis by US health officials.The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday published a range of scenarios generated by computer models, from 10,000 cases to more than 20,000. In the west Africa outbreak, more than 28,000 cases were reported. Continue reading...
'Family values' African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerousDraft treaty claims sexual and reproductive health and rights are an existential threat to the African familyAn African treaty that rejects longstanding international human rights obligations moved a step closer to becoming policy this week as governments across the continent met in Ghana.The draft African charter on family, sovereignty and values, seen by the Guardian, asserts that African values and culture are under attack from "foreign ideologies" and urges states to withdraw from any agreements that do not align with the principles of the charter, including the 2003 Maputo protocol, which promotes gender equality and protects the reproductive and health rights of women and girls. Continue reading...
Experts criticise plan for American-only Ebola quarantine centre in KenyaPlan departs from policy of bringing CDC staff back to US for treatment and offering support to all health workersFormer top US officials and other experts are urging the Trump administration to abandon plans for an Ebola quarantine and treatment centre in Kenya, as the union for workers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls for Americans exposed to Ebola to be brought home for treatment.Soon after the US revealed it was setting up a field hospital in Kenya for the Ebola quarantine and treatment of Americans, the Kenyan high court blocked the order - but the Kenyan and US governments moved forward anyway, with the first American responders reportedly landing at the Laikipia airbase on Saturday. Continue reading...
Civilians flee as Somali troops and opposition-allied militias trade fire in MogadishuViolence flares before protests on Thursday over president's decision to remain in office after his term expiredFierce clashes have taken place between government troops and militias allied with the opposition in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee.In the runup to the fighting, which started on Wednesday afternoon, opposition leaders embedded with militias set up positions in their clan strongholds the city. Continue reading...
Rebel attacks in eastern DRC kill 30 people and hamper Ebola responseIslamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinicsRebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have left more than 30 people dead over the past few days, complicating the response to the disease.At least 10 people were massacred in raids on three villages around the city of Beni, in North Kivu, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Continue reading...
'Historic': Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with WalmartUnion says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the countryCanadian warehouse workers have signed the first-ever collective agreement with Walmart, a breakthrough labour organizers are calling a "historic and powerful step".But the union says the deal with a corporation long hostile to organized labour is only an opening salvo in a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country. Continue reading...
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