Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Strategic Health Operations Centre, known simply as the AFRO SHOC Room, has been established at the Brazzaville headquarters of the WHO Regional Office for Africa, according to a WHO press release, received here Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Health authorities announced here Monday that they had evacuated maternity wards at one of the Tanzania commercial capital’s state-run hospitals to accommodate the rising number of cholera and measles patients. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- A haemorrhagic epidemic and yellow fever have broken out recently in Kwango district's Popokabaka area and in the Bagata and Kikingi health zones near the suburbs of Bandundu town, respectively, the Congolese News Agency (ACP) reported. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- About 100 delegates from several African countries are attending a conference here on ways to contain epidemics in the continent. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Residents of Kassala city in eastern Sudan are facing health hazards after floods from Al-Gash river killed at least 14 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and schools, swept away electricity poles and forced the closure of the city's only hospital. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Dr Pierre Kandolo, director of the Extended Immunisation Programme (EIP) conceded Tuesday that tuberculosis, whooping cough, lockjaw, polio, measles and yellow fever epidemics remained a big health problem in DR Congo. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Outbreaks of six communicable diseases were reported in 31 of the 46 countries in the African Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the first quarter of this year, according to statistics released in Brazzaville by the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO-AFRO). Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Some 130 people have died of meningitis and another 23 from measles in Niger this year, a government statement said. Full text...