Twelve per cent of Mauritania’s four million people suffers from various types of hepatitis (A-B-C), according to a government medical institute. The director of the National Institute of Hepatic...

More than 1,000 Libyans have been killed and over 5,000 others have been wounded since the start of the military campaign led by renegade Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar to...

A Sudanese court ordered telecoms operator Zain Sudan on Sunday to restore internet services, a lawyer said, after they were severed nearly three weeks ago when security forces dispersed...

One in five people in war zones has depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, with many suffering severe forms of...

At least three children in the Gaza Strip are left permanently disabled every month as a result of armed conflict and Israeli violations, data from the World Health Organisation...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) report has described the chronic state of mental health in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), as a result of Israeli occupation and violence. According...

Some 443 people have been killed and 2,110 wounded since Libyan General Khalifa Haftar launched his attack on the capital Tripoli early last month, the World Health Organiaation (WHO)...

Death toll resulting from the ongoing fighting between the Libyan rival factions in the capital Tripoli has risen to 264, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced yesterday. Speaking to...

The death toll from ongoing fighting between Libyan rivals in the capital Tripoli has risen to 254 and hundreds others injured, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) on...

At least 220 people have been killed and hundreds injured in recent clashes on the outskirts of the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) on...

An armed group attacked a major air base in southern Libya held by eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar on Thursday after he moved most of his forces north to...

More than 3 million books were destroyed when rockets hit the ministry of education buildings during fighting between rival government forces over the Libyan capital Tripoli, officials and the...

Yemeni doctor Mohammed Abdul-Mughni described the surge in cholera cases he was treating as “disastrous” in a country battered by years of war and short of medical staff, reports...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) strongly condemned the killing of volunteer paramedic Sajed Abed al-Hakim Mizher, by Israeli forces, while on duty in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the...

UNICEF and the WHO yesterday warned of a sharp increase in the number of reported cholera cases in Yemen since the start of this year. This came in a...

The UN on Tuesday expressed grave concern over humanitarian conditions of YPG/PKK-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, Anadolu Agency reports. Babor Baloch, spokesman for UN High Commissioner for Refugees...

An influx of thousands of people fleeing Daesh has created “dire” conditions at the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, the aid agencies working there said on Tuesday, Thomson Reuters...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned against “increasing number of attacks” on health facilities and workers in Libya, Anadolu Agency reports. In 41 attacks targeting healthcare facilities since 2018, six...

At least 29 children and newborns are reported to have died in a teeming camp in northeastern Syria over the past 8 weeks, mainly due to hypothermia, the World...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that 24.4 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian assistance, 80 per cent of the country’s 28-million-strong population. Writing on Twitter, the...

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced yesterday that it had succeeded in pressuring Israeli authorities to allow the entry of children’s vaccines into the occupied Palestinian territories next year. The...

Egyptians on social media have been poking fun at comments from President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi calling out Egyptians for being overweight – the second time the former general has...

Ambulances have been intentionally and repeatedly targeted in Syria, researchers said on Tuesday, calling for more efforts to protect medical workers caught up in the conflict, the Thomson Reuters Foundation...

UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have vaccinated more than 306,000 people in Yemen against cholera, including over 164,000 children under the age of 15, UNICEF announced on...

Ten people have died among 32 infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia since June in a series of clusters of the viral disease, Reuters reported...

The World Health Organisation (WHO), with support from the European Union, “is replenishing stocks of urgently-needed trauma medicines in Gaza, and providing hands-on training for health staff working in...

More than a quarter of the world’s adults – or 1.4 billion people – take too little exercise, putting them at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes,...

More than 70 million people in the Eastern Mediterranean region are in need of health aid, according to Ahmed Al-Mandhari, the World Health Organisation regional director for the area. Those in...

The Yemeni ministry of health launched a new polio vaccination campaign, Monday, funded by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank. The...

Outbreaks of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) killed 23 people in Saudi Arabia between Jan. 21 and May 31 this year, the World Health Organisation said on...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a vaccination campaign to combat the cholera epidemic in Yemen nearly 18 months after it was due to be started. According to...

A Palestinian medic has recounted being shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper, during the ongoing ‘Great March of Return’ protests in the occupied Gaza Strip. The testimony,...