By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Punch
The World Health Organization is publishing its first-ever recommendation on type 1 diabetes in adults, focused on the diagnosis and management of the disease. It notably advocates daily insulin injections, according to the Punch media outlet.
More than 17,000 children have been diagnosed with pneumonia in Kano State, Nigeria, according to Punch. The figure was given by Health Commissioner Abubakar Labaran Yusuf on the occasion of World Pneumonia Day and World Diabetes Day.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Punch ·
The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has exceeded 11,000 cases and 5,000 deaths, while 400 to 500 new cases are still reported each week. Diagnostic and treatment capacity has increased, according to WHO and Congolese health authorities meeting in Bunia on 12 November.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: Actualité.cd ·
Cameroon recorded nine confirmed cases of yellow fever, including one death, between 1 January and 12 October 2026, according to the World Health Organisation. Vaccination campaigns reached 404,935 people between February and July in districts with epidemic potential, according to the WHO.
🇨🇲 Cameroon · Source: StopBlaBlaCam ·
The World Health Organization warns that insecurity in eastern DR Congo is affecting the Ebola response, after an ADF attack on several health centres in North Kivu displaced thousands of people, including contacts. The WHO now considers insecurity one of the main obstacles to tackling the epidemic, according to RFI.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: RFI ·
French presidential election: Édouard Philippe seen as the strongest on the rightAn Elabe survey conducted for La Tribune and BFMTV places former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe at the top of the candidates seen as the strongest for the right and the centre in the French presidential election. Published on Saturday, the survey is reported by BFMTV, which also cites Jordan Bardella (RN) on the candidacy of Teddy Riner.
Mali evacuates 73,000 people expelled from GuineaIn Mali, Security Minister Daoud Aly Mohammedine announced that 73,000 people have been evacuated since the operation began, at an interministerial meeting chaired by Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga. The government has mobilised 475 vehicles and Burkina Faso 209. Measures are being taken to contain those expelled at the Kouremalé border post, according to Bamada.net.The week in Africa
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