Tanzania: Cholera Outbreak - Jul 2023 Updates

By the end of 2025, the Southern Africa region continued to face overlapping and intensifying humanitarian crises, leaving millions of people in need of assistance, including 1.6 million in...

The Eastern Africa region is home to some of the world’s most severe and complex humanitarian crises, with an estimated 48.5 million people - around 20 per cent of the global caseload - in need of...

HIGHLIGHTS In 2026, 2.5 million people will require urgent humanitarian assistance in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania.1 The spillover from conflicts in the Democratic...

Highlights The Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) continued to experience overlapping and intensifying humanitarian crises. The escalation of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...

Welcome to our Epidemic Intelligence Weekly Report, your trusted source for real-time updates on priority events of concern on the continent. The narrative brought to you focuses on three main areas:...

Overview From 1 January to 28 September 2025, a cumulative total of 518 324 cholera cases and 6508 deaths were reported from 32 countries across five WHO regions, with the Eastern Mediterranean...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. This week’s articles cover: Cholera in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Floods in Cape Verde For...

Eastern Africa continued to be home to some of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises, driven by a convergence of escalating conflicts, political instability, economic shocks, disease outbreaks,...

Much of Southern Africa remained gripped by a worsening humanitarian crisis in the third quarter of the year, driven by climatic shocks, disease outbreaks, economic pressures, hostilities and fragile...

Overview From 1 January to 31 August 2025, a cumulative total of 462 890 cholera cases and 5869 deaths were reported from 32 countries across five WHO regions, with the Eastern Mediterranean Region...

OVERVIEW Southern and Eastern Africa is facing major health crises, with cholera emerging as one of the region’s most urgent public health emergencies. Between January and August 2025, more than...

Welcome to our Epidemic Intelligence Weekly Report, your trusted source for real-time updates on priority events of concern on the continent. The narrative brought to you focuses on three main areas:...

From 1 January to 27 July 2025, a cumulative total of 382 718 cholera cases and 4478 deaths were reported from 31 countries across four WHO regions, with the Eastern Mediterranean Region recording...

Southern Africa continues to grapple with the lingering impacts of the 2024 El Niño-induced drought—the worst in a century—which devastated harvests and livelihoods. The humanitarian situation was...

Welcome to our Epidemic Intelligence Weekly Report, your trusted source for real-time updates on priority events of concern on the continent. The narrative brought to you focuses on three main areas:...

Between November 2023 and mid-2024, Tanzania experienced devastating floods and landslides across more than 14 regions, triggered by the El Niño–Indian Ocean Dipole phenomenon and intensified by...

Data as of 29 June 2025 In June 2025 (epidemiological weeks 23 to 26), a total of 62330 new cholera and/or acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) cases were reported from 20 countries, territories, areas...

The humanitarian situation in Eastern Africa is rapidly deteriorating, driven by escalating conflicts, political instability, economic shocks, disease outbreaks, and extreme climate events. The...

Overview This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. This week’s articles cover: Humanitarian crisis in South Sudan Mpox in Togo Measles in Guinea ...

Overview This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. This week’s articles cover: Measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mpox in Zambia...