Further south lies the continent’s second longest - the Congo River, formerly the Zaire River - which is also the world's deepest-recorded river. This incredible waterway has measured depths ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

This incredible river is the second-longest in Africa and is also the world's deepest river, with a measured depth of around 220 metres.

The confirmation of Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a series of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African ...

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection during an outbreak of the Zaire strain of ... in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease ...

The disease is named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then called Zaire, where it was discovered in 1976. Meanwhile, the Red Cross voiced alarm on Tuesday over the risk that ...

United Natives, a national Native-led nonprofit, hosted its Second Annual United Natives Sports Gala at The Cannery in New ...

A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection during an outbreak of the Zaire strain of ... in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease ...