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Kenya Red Cross steps up aid for families displaced by insecurity in Moyale
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Kenya Red Cross steps up aid for families displaced by insecurity in Moyale

MARSABIT, Kenya, Oct 26 — The Kenya Red Cross Society has stepped up humanitarian assistance to families displaced by insecurity linked to cross-border conflict in Moyale, Marsabit County, with health services now operational in all six displacement camps. Beyond healthcare and material assistance, the Kenya Red Cross is helping families separated during the displacement reconnect through its Restoring Family Links programme.

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Nigeria Ebola case linked to virus found in Kenya index case, health minister says
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Nigeria Ebola case linked to virus found in Kenya index case, health minister says

Genomic ​analysis of Nigeria’s only confirmed Ebola case ‌shows the virus is closely related to the strain detected in Kenya’s index case, Nigeria’s health minister ​Muhammad Ali Pate said on Friday, offering ​the first genetic link between the outbreaks. Pate said contacts linked to the case are being traced, ​quarantined and tested, with some results ​negative and others still pending Nigeria has recorded only one ‌confirmed ⁠Ebola case from a traveller who had visited Uganda Uganda, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and has previously battled Ebola outbreaks, ​said on…

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Public Health Workers Suspend Strike for 30 Days to Allow Talks With Govt
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Public Health Workers Suspend Strike for 30 Days to Allow Talks With Govt

NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 25 – Public health workers have suspended their nationwide strike for 30 days to allow negotiations with the government over their grievances. The strike has highlighted ongoing labour relations challenges in the public health sector, where disagreements between healthcare workers and the government can disrupt the delivery of essential medical services.

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MENOPAUSE: Women urged to seek care, manage symptoms early
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MENOPAUSE: Women urged to seek care, manage symptoms early

Okwesi spoke during the induction of no fewer than 100 women as mentors at the 2026 edition of Menopause West Africa, themed, ‘Advancing the Conversation on Women’s Health, Well-Being and Institutional Support’, held in Lagos and sponsored by Menofix Herbals capsule. For her part, President of the Customs Officers’ Wives Association, COWA, Mrs Kikilomo Adeniyi, said menopause was not the end of womanhood but a new chapter in life that required strength, wisdom and renewed purpose.

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MTN Yellow Ladies Network screens 500 market women for breast cancer
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MTN Yellow Ladies Network screens 500 market women for breast cancer

The Yellow Ladies Network, a non-profit organisation made up of female staff of MTN, has organised a free breast cancer screening for 500 women in Accra as part of activities to mark this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Speaking during the programme, MTN Ghana’s Chief Finance Officer and Chairperson of the MTN Yellow Ladies Network, Antoinette Kwofie, said the network is extending its activities beyond staff welfare to impact communities through health interventions.

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Ebola: Lagos Intensifies Surveillance, Reassures Residents Of Preparedness
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Ebola: Lagos Intensifies Surveillance, Reassures Residents Of Preparedness

The Lagos State Government has said it is ready to prevent, detect and respond to potential public health threats, amid concerns over the confirmation of Nigeria’s first case of the Bundibugyo virus in the Federal Capital Territory. A health official works in the laboratory extraction room of the Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control in Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Irrua, Edo State, midwest Nigeria, on March 6, 2018.

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Lagos govt on alert, says no Ebola case in state
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Lagos govt on alert, says no Ebola case in state

The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, in a statement on Sunday assured residents that there was no Ebola case in Lagos. In line with Lagos State’s fever-management policy, Abayomi advised anyone with a fever to undergo a malaria rapid diagnostic test before taking antimalarial medicines.

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NACOC Director-General urges journalists to investigate drug trafficking networks in Ghana
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NACOC Director-General urges journalists to investigate drug trafficking networks in Ghana

The Director-General of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), Major General Maxwell Obuba Mantey, has challenged journalists to investigate the networks and vulnerabilities that enable drug trafficking rather than focusing mainly on arrests and drug seizures. The Ashanti Regional Director of NACOC, Rees Hakeem Oduro, delivered the message on behalf of the Director-General at the Ashanti Media Excellence Awards in Kumasi.

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Plague risks in Russia and a dangerous delay on WHO pandemic agreement
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Plague risks in Russia and a dangerous delay on WHO pandemic agreement

Responding to an editorial on a potential plague outbreak, Dr Darren Mann deplores delays to the agreement, while Kent Buse says Britain could do more Your editorial on the silence from Siberia after a worker died at a plague research institute there is right that the lack of information is the real worry (The Guardian view on plague in Russia: what is most worrying is the lack of information, 18 October). I spent three decades in Hong Kong, through bird flu, Sars and Covid, working on outbreak surveillance and sample-sharing between Hong Kong and the UK.

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On dementia, we need to tell it how it is
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On dementia, we need to tell it how it is

David Lee responds to a letter questioning the use of language about people with dementia Sally Byers takes Polly Toynbee to task (Letters, 19 October) for using what she considers to be “deeply troubling language” about people with dementia, in particular the phrases “glazed stares or sleeping mouths agape” and “that terrible human vacancy” in Toynbee’s article (In Liverpool I saw the tough choices Louise Casey faces on social care – starting with who will pay?, 13 October). I looked at the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project language guide for journalists highlighted in the letter.

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Is having urine the color of Mountain Dew normal?
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Is having urine the color of Mountain Dew normal?

A Trump administration doctor says neon yellow urine is normal because of diets consisting entirely of meat and fermented foods. Here’s what experts say A doctor who advises several Trump cabinet members on their diets rhapsodized this summer about having urine the color of Mountain Dew, thanks to a diet consisting entirely of meat and fermented foods.

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