The Bundibugyo strain has no approved vaccine or specific treatment, and confirmed cases now extend to Kenya and Nigeria. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reached 9,964 confirmed cases and 4,851 related deaths as of October 25, according to…
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, joins Erik Prince, the US, and the UN to kill more Haitians. But why were those Salvadoran mercenaries in Haiti in the first place? Under whose authority and what law? How is it that Bukele…
A stunning electoral upset just lost President Donald Trump the "biggest prize" — as his allies abroad topple, a political expert told Raw Story on Monday. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's runoff victory Sunday against Flávio Bolsonaro, the far-right…
Nigeria has reported its first case of the Ebola virus in over a decade, becoming the fourth African nation to be affected by an outbreak that’s killed over 4,600 people and sickened nearly 10,000 others. The patient is receiving care in a…
Nigeria’s health ministry confirmed on October 20 that a woman in Abuja has Bundibugyo ebolavirus disease, making Nigeria the fifth country to detect the virus since the Congolese health ministry declared the outbreak on May 15. She arrived from Uganda, fell ill…
Domestic violence has intensified under Taliban rule since August 2021, as the regime has imposed more than 160 edicts and directives restricting the rights and freedoms of women and girls. By barring women from education and employment, severely limiting their freedom of…
Workers at the Smart Solar (Güneş) Technologies factory are completing the second week of their fight against the firing of over 80 of their coworkers. Smart Solar is one of Türkiye’s leading solar panel manufacturers, and the factory is in Aliağa,…
No previous Ebola outbreak has grown this quickly. The Ebola virus is spreading at an unprecedented rate this year. The last major Ebola epidemic of this scale began in 2014 and continued through 2016 in West Africa. Over that period, it ultimately…
High food and transport costs, scarce work and declining humanitarian assistance are squeezing families’ access to food as winter approaches. Nearly 40 percent of the population of Afghanistan is projected to face high levels of acute food insecurity this winter, and…
In Sudan, a drone strike near a market in West Kordofan state on Sunday evening killed 80 people. The attack is one of the deadliest single strikes since war broke out in April 2023 when a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed…
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