Nigeria, May 1 -- The agency said diseases such as Mpox and cholera are increasingly moving across national boundaries, driven by population movement and gaps in cross-border surveillance.

Dr Wazih N. Cho, Intelligence and Data Analyst at Africa CDC's Division of Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, made this known during the agency's weekly outbreak briefing on Thursday.

According to him, recent surveillance findings show that infections are no longer contained within individual countries but are spreading across regions due to human mobility and weak monitoring systems at borders. He noted that about 85 per cent of confirmed Mpox cases in Africa are currently concentrated in a few member states, including Madagascar, Guinea, Kenya ...