Tarik Jasarevic

At least 300 people have been killed in four days of intense gunbattles in the capital of South Sudan and 42,000 have fled the city, the UN said Friday.

The World Health Organization today confirmed that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has surfaced in Liberia, which was declared Ebola free in September.

The World Health Organization said today it would soon call an emergency meeting on the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) as the death toll from the virus rises in South Korea.

A "mysterious" disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 17 lives in a southeastern Nigerian town, the government said today.

Health workers are monitoring 82 people who had contact with a toddler who died of Ebola in Mali last week, but no new cases of the disease have yet been reported, World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia has announced 13 more deaths from the MERS coronavirus, as the World Health Organisation prepares for an emergency meeting over worries about the spread of the disease.

At least 300 people have been killed in four days of intense gunbattles in the capital of South Sudan and 42,000 have fled the city, the UN said Friday.

The World Health Organization today confirmed that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has surfaced in Liberia, which was declared Ebola free in September.

The World Health Organization said today it would soon call an emergency meeting on the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) as the death toll from the virus rises in South Korea.

A "mysterious" disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 17 lives in a southeastern Nigerian town, the government said today.

Health workers are monitoring 82 people who had contact with a toddler who died of Ebola in Mali last week, but no new cases of the disease have yet been reported, World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia has announced 13 more deaths from the MERS coronavirus, as the World Health Organisation prepares for an emergency meeting over worries about the spread of the disease.