(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Tuesday that around 367 cases of monkeypox (mpox), including three deaths, have been confirmed in five...
(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine alliance, Africa CDC and...
(VOVWORLD) - On September 1, the world will commemorate the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the most devastating war in human history. The commemoration takes place with...
(VOVWORLD) - Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected and often in areas where experts...
(VOVWORLD) - Hans Kluge, regional director for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday called on countries to collaborate to control and eradicate monkeypox (mpox) globally
(VOVWORLD) - Countries across Asia are stepping up checks for mpox after the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency last Wednesday
(VOVWORLD) - Health officials on Thursday confirmed an infection with a new strain of the mpox virus in Sweden and linked it to the growing outbreak in Africa, the first sign...
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in Democratic...
(VOVWORLD) - The African Union’s health watchdog on Tuesday declared the growing monkey pox or mpox outbreak a public health emergency
(VOVWORLD) -The World Health Organization's chief announced Wednesday he was urgently convening an expert committee to advise on whether the growing Mpox outbreak in Africa should be declared an...
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization's chief said Sunday he was considering convening an expert committee to advise on whether the growing mpox outbreak in Africa should be declared an...
(VOVWORLD) - The ongoing conflict in Sudan is worsening the already severe humanitarian crisis in South Sudan for refugees and the communities hosting them, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR...
(VOVWORLD) - Some 74.9 million people in the Greater Horn of Africa region are facing food insecurity and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to a report released on Wednesday...
(VOVWORLD) - An "attempted coup" in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was suppressed on Sunday by defense and security forces, said Sylvain Ekenge, spokesperson for the...
(VOVWORLD) - The US Department of Agriculture and the US Agency for International Development will distribute 1 billion USD worth of US commodities to countries with high hunger rates, the agencies...
(VOVWORLD) -Themed “Water for All”, this year’s International Day of Action for Rivers (IDAR), on March 14, focuses on raising awareness about the importance of water and the need...
(VOVWORLD) - On Monday, a delegation from the High Command of the Naval Region 3 presented Tet gifts to soldiers and people in Con Co island district in Quang Tri province...
(VOVWORLD) - Western embassies in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa issued a joint statement on Saturday, urging political parties to exercise restraint after some leading opposition members called...
(VOVWORLD) - The 28th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) is taking place from November 30 to December 12 in Dubai, the UAE. COP28 has...
(VOVWORLD) - Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo strapped explosive belts around baby twin girls as a booby-trap for security forces - just one incident in a surge in violence against...