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A World Health Organization’s supported malnutrition ward in Khartoum, Sudan reveals the heavy toll of almost three years of conflict on children’s health. WHO

On 1 December 2025, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared the end of the country's 16th Ebola virus disease outbreak. WHO

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated the Government and people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the country. WHO

According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, nearly 100,000 people have fled El Fasher and villages close by in the last two weeks alone. “They are stranded somewhere,” said the agency’s Head of Sub Office in Port Sudan, Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet. UNTV CH

WHO, UNICEF and UNRWA are undertaking an integrated catch-up campaign in Gaza to reach 44,000 children, who have been deprived of essential life-saving services by two years of conflict, with routine immunization, nutrition support and growth monitoring. WHO

The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told delegates at COP30 in Belém, Brazil that “the climate crisis is a health crisis for individuals, but also for health systems” and said the Belém Health Action Plan is how health systems can “build resilience to climate change.” COURTESY EBC

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that one month since the ceasefire in Gaza was announced, WHO is continuing to support the reconstruction of Gaza’s health system, and the medical evacuation of patients who need treatment outside Gaza. WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) evacuated 19 patients and 93 companions to Italy for specialised medical care not available in Gaza. WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidance for countries on ways to counter the immediate and long-term effects of sudden and severe cuts to external funding, which are disrupting the delivery of essential health services in many countries. WHO

More details continue to emerge about atrocities committed during and after the fall of El Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan on 23 October. Since the powerful paramilitary group made a major incursion into the city last week, the UN Human Rights Office has received “horrendous accounts of summary executions, mass killings, rapes, attacks against humanitarian workers, looting, abductions and forced displacement,” said Seif Magango, spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). UNTV CH

The UN’s top aid official in Ukraine expressed concern about “continuous attacks” on energy production sites and distribution facilities. UNTV CH

The World Health Organization (WHO) led another medical evacuation mission from Gaza with 30 patients and 60 companions, who will be receiving needed medical care in UAE, Romania and the Netherlands. WHO