KENYAN BUILDING COLLAPSE NEAR NAIROBI KILLS SIX PEOPLE. (PHOTO).

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 Kenyan building collapse near Nairobi kills six people The collapse of an unfinished eight-storey building in Kenya has killed six people. The structure fell on Friday morning in Syokimau on the outskirts of Nairobi. Construction workers were reportedly at the site when the building’s uppermost concrete slab gave way, bringing down part of the structure, according to a preliminary report from Nairobi City County’s emergency team. The report did not establish why the slab failed. The Kenya Red Cross initially reported that three people had been rescued and one person was reported missing. TV reports later said that five people had been pulled alive from the rubble and taken to hospital. The emergency report said the number of workers present when the building fell had not been confirmed, leaving open the possibility that others were trapped. Firefighters and specialist rescue teams were continuing to search for survivors.

CONGO'S EBOLA OUTBREAK HAS KILLED MORE THAN 4,000, GOVERNMENT DATA SHOWS. (PHOTO).


 Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000, government data shows


The number of deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has surpassed 4,000, ‌government data showed on Friday, as the worst epidemic in the country's history resists containment efforts.


Government figures showed on Friday that the death toll had risen to 4,018, and confirmed cases had reached 8,300 across seven provinces.


Over 2,000 ‌patients ⁠have recovered from the disease, Reuters reported.


Congo's government and the UN said last month there were signs that transmission was slowing in some parts of Ituri province, where the outbreak ⁠began. But it continues to spread fast across eastern Congo, including in neighbouring North Kivu.


South Ubangi province, located in the ⁠northwest of the country, became the seventh province to declare the outbreak last month after a ⁠man who had travelled from eastern Congo died of the virus.


The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, became the largest and deadliest in Congo after surpassing the ⁠2018-2020 epidemic.


It is now second only to the 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, which infected over 28,600 people and killed more than 11,000 across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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