The World Health Organization reported the death of 78 people due to the hemorrhagic fever or Congo fever in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that since the beginning of this year, 494 positive cases of Congo dengue fever have been registered in Afghanistan, of which 47 people have died due to this disease.

At least 120 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital Kinshasa after heavy rains unleashed floods and caused landslides.

Congolese authorities and health workers vaccinated more than 200,000 people against Ebola in August, the government said on Sunday, using a Merck vaccine they hope will help rein in the world's second worst epidemic.

At least 161 people have been killed in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the past week, local officials say, in an apparent resurgence of ethnic clashes between farming and herding communities.