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WHO warns of ‘biological risk’ after Sudan fighters seize lab, as violence mars US-brokered ceasefire | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  The World Health Organization warned Tuesday of a “huge biological risk” after Sudanese fighters seized the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum, as foreign nations raced to mount rapid evacuation efforts from the country and violence punctured a fragile US-brokered ceasefire. Gunfire and the roar of fighter jets was heard

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‘We saw corpses in the street:’ People flee Sudan’s capital as violence torments city | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  Sudanese people and Western staff are desperately trying to flee the country’s capital, Khartoum, where intense violence between rival factions is overwhelming hospitals with victims and multiple attempts to bring about a ceasefire have failed. Bloody clashes and confrontations between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have entered a

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‘We left behind children in incubators:’ Witnesses describe hospital shelled in Sudan’s clashes | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  As fighting between warring factions has engulfed Sudan in recent days, hospitals treating people wounded in clashes have themselves become the targets for attacks, dealing the nation’s healthcare sector a devastating blow. In one episode, five eyewitnesses told CNN that the paramilitary group battling Sudan’s military for control of the country besieged

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Uganda announces lockdown as Ebola cases rise | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared an immediate three-week lockdown in two high risk districts as the country battles a rise in Ebola infections. All movement in and out of the Mubende and Kassanda districts will be halted, Museveni said in a televised address on Saturday – although cargo trucks will be

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Ebola infections grow in Uganda as death toll rises to 23 | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  Ebola infections have risen across districts in Uganda, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed and suspected deaths to 23, health authorities in the east African country said Monday. Uganda declared an Ebola outbreak last Tuesday after a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain was detected in the country’s Mubende district. The

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