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Kenya's health minister says all seven patients have recovered and all contacts have completed monitoring, starting a 42-day wait before the country can be declared free of Ebola.
About 50,000 people who fled violent clashes in Ethiopia have crossed into Kenya's Moyale area, where an IOM-supported assessment of 758 households found serious gaps in food, water, shelter and healthcare.
The UN refugee agency's representative for Kenya said that, according to local authorities, up to an estimated 50,000 people have crossed into Kenya after clashes between the forces of Ethiopia's Somali and Oromia regions.
Africa CDC is convening African health ministers on 28 October 2026 over an Ebola outbreak centred in DR Congo that has reached Kenya, and its Director General, Jean Kaseya, warned that the outbreak could reach countries outside Africa, according to The Guardian.
People have crossed into Kenya to escape armed clashes in southern Ethiopia near the border town of Moyale, with reported displacement figures ranging from more than 2,000 to over 14,000.
A multi-storey building under construction collapsed on Friday in Nairobi's Eastleigh area, and Kenyan officials say seven people are missing as rescuers search the rubble.
Kenya's Health Ministry said on 23 October 2026 that a 65-year-old woman, a close relative of the country's first Ebola patient, has died after developing symptoms in quarantine.
Kenya's world and Olympic marathon champion has been provisionally suspended after an out-of-competition sample collected in Kenya before her Sydney Marathon win tested positive for the banned substance EPO.
A court in Mombasa found Paul Mackenzie and co-accused guilty of murdering 190 children and one adult linked to his religious group in Shakahola forest. Sentencing is set for 6 November.
Congo's Health Ministry reports two cases, including one death, in Nord-Ubangi, while Deutsche Welle, citing Kenya's Health Ministry, says Kenya's confirmed cases have risen to eight.
Kenya has confirmed four more Ebola cases, three of them health workers, bringing its total to seven, and Al Jazeera reports that the cases are linked to the epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kenya's Ministry of Health says a 39-year-old man, already in quarantine, has Ebola, that both cases are linked and that there is no evidence of wider community spread.
Kenya's health minister said a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo tested positive for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola after flying to Nairobi via Uganda, and has since died.
A helicopter crashed in Zimbabwe's Marondera rural area on Wednesday evening, killing all six people on board, including businessman Wicknell Chivayo and his wife. The cause has not been established.
Aliko Dangote's planned 700,000-barrel-a-day refinery in Lamu reached its groundbreaking stage, while residents contest the land in court and a ruling pauses site activities until a 14 October hearing.