The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 49 events in the region. This week, three new events have been reported: Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Mauritania and cholera in Burundi and Chad. This week’s edition also covers key ongoing events, including: 

• Cholera in Kenya
• Hepatitis E in Niger
• Floods/mudslide in Sierra Leone
• Humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.