By AFPMore by this AuthorKINSHASAMore than a hundred children in Democratic Republic of Congo have died of measles since the start of the year, an outbreak that has added to deadly epidemics of cholera and Ebola, the UN said on Wednesday. Health officials in the southeast provinces of Lualaba and Lomami recorded 7,175 cases of measles in January, "at least 137 of which were fatal," the UN's MONUSCO peacekeeping mission said. MONUSCO added that 1,936 cases of cholera had been recorded since the start of the year in Katanga, Lomami and Tanganyika. "We don't speak about these two epidemics very much" yet they are "also very worrying and deadly," said the report. Last weekend, the government said more than 500 people had died from Ebola since last August in North Kivu and Ituri, in the troubled east of the country.

Source: Daily Nation February 13, 2019 18:11 UTC