kenya: Communicable Diseases Ravage Great Lakes Countries

Three of six communicable diseases reported by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to have broken out in Africa since January affected countries in the Great Lakes region. According to statistics published by the WHO regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo (ROC), outbreaks of Ebola were reported in the ROC; malaria in Burundi; and cholera in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Tanzania.