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Nigeria has confirmed the country's first Ebola case in Abuja, the capital city.

Health officials are saying the current outbreak is now the most geographically widespread ever, as NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports.

Nigerian health officials confirmed on Tuesday that a woman who'd been receiving care at a hospital in Abuja tested positive for Ebola.

She'd recently arrived in the city of over 2 million on an international flight from Uganda, officials say.

Nigeria's first case comes days after the virus arrived in Kenya, where nine people have tested positive.

The Democratic Republic of Congo remains the outbreak's epicenter, reporting over 9,000 cases and 4,600 deaths since May.

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Florida has carried out its 18th execution of the year under Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

A new report finds the number of people facing life-threatening hunger has doubled over the past decade.

NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports food crises in just three countries account for much of the hunger.

Two-hundred and sixty-six million people worldwide are facing acute hunger, according to a report from the nonprofit Action Against Hunger.

About a third of them live in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Nigeria.

Humanitarian aid targeting food insecurity fell by nearly sixty percent over the past few years.

The authors say that peace and more funding are needed to reverse the trend.

Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.

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The number of people facing life-threatening hunger has doubled over the past decade, according to a new analysis.

NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports food crises in just three countries account for much of that toll.

266 million people worldwide are facing acute hunger, according to a report from the nonprofit Action Against Hunger.

About a third of them live in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Nigeria.

Humanitarian aid targeting food insecurity fell by nearly 60% over the past few years.

The authors say that peace and more funding are needed to reverse the trend.

Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.

The NBA is restricting certain types of betting following scandals that led to arrests of current and former NBA figures.

More than nine thousand people have gotten sick from the ongoing Ebola outbreak.

NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports cases are popping up outside the epicenter.

Democratic Republic of Congo officials confirmed there have been nine thousand one hundred and forty-four cases and over forty-four hundred deaths, making this the second largest Ebola outbreak ever.

Early hotspots of spread have slowed down a bit, but the virus has moved into new territory.

Now, one of his family members has gotten sick.

Kenyan health officials said this second case was already in quarantine and is now being treated.

Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.

Online streamer Netflix says it'll lay off about six percent of its workforce.

More than 9,000 people have gotten sick during the ongoing Ebola outbreak, according to health officials.

As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, cases are popping up outside the epicenter.

Democratic Republic of Congo officials confirmed that there have been 9,144 cases and over 4,400 deaths, making this the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever.

Early hotspots of spread have slowed down a bit, but the virus has moved into new territory.

Now, one of his family members has gotten sick.

Kenyan health officials said this second case was already in quarantine and is now being treated.

Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.

New York City is moving toward a ban on the more than 150-year-old horse-drawn carriage industry following the death of a teenage tourist in Central Park.

In the face of shrinking health budgets, the World Health Organization is updating guidance to make limited vaccine stocks cover more people.

NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports.

Many global vaccination campaigns are funded through foreign aid.

As the US and many other countries drastically reduce such spending, many countries are facing tighter vaccine budgets.

And the committee said that the HPV vaccine campaign should use a single dose instead of a two or three-dose schedule.

The committee stressed that evidence suggests these smaller regimens are still effective and could ultimately help more people get vaccinated.

Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.

Formula One says Rwanda will host a race in the early 2030s when the series returns to Africa for the first time in almost 40 years.