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DR Congo reports 16pc of Africa cholera cases last year

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A resident of Mathare slums in Nairobi is immunized against cholera on the first week of the drive that is geared towards curbing the spread of the disease. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The African continent has recorded 4,419 cholera-related deaths and 266,436 cases over the past year, with over 16 percent of cases reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

The DRC, one of the worst cholera-affected countries in Africa, also reported 97.5 percent of monkeypox cases in the continent during the same period, said the Africa CDC, the African Union's autonomous public health agency, in a statement issued over the weekend.

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