The African Region WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 42 events, 34 infectious diseases outbreaks and 8 humanitarian crises. This edition (week 16) covers:

• Monkeypox outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Central African Republic 
• Humanitarian crisis in South Sudan 
• Meningitis in Nigeria and Niger, 
• Acute watery diarrhea/cholera in Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.