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The Health CS said Kenya continues to work closely with county governments, regional bodies and international partners to strengthen preparedness and response activities.
At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called on staff to volunteer for urgent deployment to help with Ebola screening at United States entry points as surveillance measures are tightened.
They are believed to have contracted Ebola on 27 March while working in the eastern region of Ituri on a project unrelated to the virus, before the outbreak was identified.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 750 suspected Ebola cases and 177 suspected deaths had been recorded, cautioning that the situation remained fluid as surveillance and laboratory testing continued to improve.
Medical workers at the Rwampara hospital, located near the city of Bunia in Ituri province, where almost all of the cases have been reported, were placed under military protection as the police moved in to restore order.
The continental health body warned that the outbreak could spread further due to several factors, including heavy movement of people in mining areas around Mongwalu, insecurity in affected regions, gaps in contact tracing, infection control challenges, and the proximity of the outbreak zones to Uganda and South Sudan.
Speaking exclusively to Radio Generation on Monday from their training base in Nairobi, KWBF president Alfred Simiyu expressed confidence that the selected quartet ranks among Kenya’s best young players.
the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said Kabila was sanctioned for backing the March 23 Movement (M23) and its political-military coalition, the Congo River Alliance (AFC), both of which are implicated in ongoing violence in eastern DRC.
The association pointed to deep-rooted challenges affecting drivers in the region, including unreliable security arrangements, slow or ineffective emergency response systems, and gaps in responsibility among employers and cargo handlers.
Speaking earlier from her training camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of the bout, Mugo told Radio Generation that her ambitions remain clear — to rise to the top of the sport.
Speaking on Wednesday from Nairobi, KWBF President Alfred Simiyu Barasa told Radio Generation that the team has trained well for over a month, with no injuries or illnesses reported in camp so far.
Ngoma’s death emerges as both Kinshasa and M23 work to uphold a Qatar-brokered ceasefire. The arrangement includes a joint monitoring and verification system with representatives from Qatar, the United States, and the African Union overseeing compliance.