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Shelling killed at least 21 people at a market in southeast Sudan Sunday, a day after the country's rulers rejected a call by UN experts for an independent force to protect civilians from the devastating civil war.

Sudan has rejected a call by United Nations experts for the deployment of an "independent and impartial force" to protect millions of civilians driven from their homes by more than a year of war.

The head of the World Health Organization believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months

WHO says infant in stable condition as it prepares to vaccinate more than 640,000 children amid war

Deadlier case of Clade 1b monkeypox strain detected for first time in Asia as countries prepare to face threat

Cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, have been detected in Sweden and Pakistan, just days after the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency in response to the resurgence of cases in Africa. The current outbreak is centered on the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the disease has…

"The West only gets concerned about controlling epidemics when we start seeing cases, and then it is almost always too late to eradicate the infection."

While the new clade 1 strain of mpox has appeared in parts of Africa, other types have been recorded around the world this year, including in the UK

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More than 14,000 cases and 524 death have been reported from mpox in Africa this year

The World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency around the surge of Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries, sounding its highest alarm over the spread of the virus for the second time since 2022.