Bhattacharya wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal published on June 3 that the United States was acting aggressively to prevent Ebola from being imported into America, citing how officials have barred many people who were recently in Congo, South Sudan

Defence Minister Anita Anand says Canadian evacuation flights in Sudan have been hampered by a mechanical issue in one military plane that has since been resolved.

Global Affairs Canada has provided very little information on efforts to get Canadian citizens, or even its own staff, out of Sudan.

Americans in Sudan have been urged to shelter in place. Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 19, 2023.

South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, has been blighted by political and communal violence and clashes over cattle and land disputes for decades.

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that more than 136,000 people have been affected by floods in the eastern Sudan and Kordofan states.

CAIRO—Floods triggered by seasonal torrential rains in Sudan have killed more than 50 people and inundated over 8,170 homes since the rainy season started, a senior police official said Saturday.

State Department said in a new advisory that it has established a way for American citizens in Congo, South Sudan, or Uganda to request assistance.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canadians evacuated from Sudan "went through hell" and Ottawa will do everything possible to help the country find peace.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada has no means of evacuating citizens from Sudan, where violence has drastically escalated between the country's army and its rival paramilitary force.

“It’s been 100 days of war in Sudan, with a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure, but worse lies ahead,” said William Carter, Norwegian Refugee Council’s director in Sudan.

The screening applies to passengers returning from Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan. At least 82 people were killed and some 120 others were injured in a gas explosion at a coal mine in China's coal-producing Shanxi province.

Most outbreaks in the region have involved the Zaire ebolavirus strain, the most common and often most severe type, although outbreaks with other strains, including Sudan ebolavirus, have occurred in Uganda and Sudan.

A Canadian effort is underway to conduct airlifts out of Sudan and two military vessels have arrived off its coast, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, as violence in the region continues for a second week.

According to a May 28 update from the USCIS, a total of 12 countries carry TPS designations at present: Burma (Myanmar), El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen.

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Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement that at least 335 protesters across Sudan had been arrested, including at least 39 women and "a considerable number of children".

In a dramatic helicopter evacuation in Sudan, special forces troops plunged into the war-torn country on a risky mission to bring U.S. personnel to safety. But thousands of Americans still remain.

The May 22 update states that any foreign nationals or green card holders who have been in countries experiencing a known or suspected outbreak of Bundibugyo ebolavirus disease—Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan—at any point in the last 21 days, regardless

Department of State issued a "worldwide caution" advisory for Americans overseas and said that U.S. citizens who were present in Congo, South Sudan, or Uganda in the past 21 days can only enter through specific airports for screening when they arrive

Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that Sudan may be close to all-out-civil war after a weekend airstrike killed dozens in the city near the capital of Khartoum.

The United Nations also welcomed Sunday's deal Western powers had condemned last month's takeover and suspended economic assistance to Sudan, which has been trying to recover from a deep economic crisis.

CAIRO—Nearly 200 people have been wounded in the latest protests to erupt in the Sudanese capital over deteriorating economic conditions following a military take-over, a doctor’s union said Friday. The Sudan’s Doctors Committee issued a statement saying that 187 people were wounded in clashes with police in Khartoum on Thursday, 70 of whom were likely […]

The outbreak has since spread to Uganda, and South Sudan borders the region in Congo where many of the cases have been recorded.

Some of the suspected cases are in Bunia, the capital of Congo's Ituri Province, which borders South Sudan and Uganda.

Sudan is a major gold producer with numerous mines scattered across the country. In 2020, the East African nation produced 36.6 tons, the second most in the continent, according to official numbers.

It will also prohibit entry to individuals holding non-U.S. passports who have travelled to Uganda, Congo, or South Sudan within the last 21 days.

She also said Canada has increased its humanitarian aid to Cuba, Haiti, Sudan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon.

(Glody Murhbazi/AFP via Getty Images) The United States has suspended the entry of people who have recently been to Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan.

Those who have travelled to Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan in the past three weeks are required to isolate for 21 days after arriving in Canada under the most recent response measures to the Ebola outbreak.