Tag Archives: DRC

GENEVA | Xinhua | The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become the second-largest on record and is moving faster than previous ones, pushing health officials into a race to keep it from becoming the deadliest. The latest official count showed 4,449 confirmed cases and …

  WHO and Africa CDC call for stronger detection, contact tracing and treatment capacity as response struggles to keep pace   Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Republic of Congo needs to urgently expand its community-led response to Ebola as new infections and deaths continue to outpace efforts …

  Uganda says modern outbreak science has changed what investigators can know. Is it time to rethink the 42-day rule?   COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | When Uganda’s Ministry of Health announced on July 28, 2026, that the country had declared the end of its latest Ebola outbreak, something unusual …

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in DRC has climbed to 1,405, with confirmed cases now at 3,200, government data showed Sunday as researchers race to develop a vaccine   Kinshasa, DRC | AGENCIES | Medics have recorded more than 3,200 Ebola cases, including over 1,400 deaths, in the Democratic Republic …

  Uganda is officially Ebola-free,” Dr Baryomunsi said.  Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda has officially been declared Ebola-free after successfully containing an outbreak traced to imported cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. Health Minister Dr Chris Baryomunsi made the declaration …

  The outbreak in the DRC has led to more than 1,900 cases and more than 700 deaths, according to the latest figures from the DRC’s Ministry of Health   Berlin, Germany | AGENCIES | A second American citizen infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Health workers have questioned why government health programmes such as free bed net distribution, spraying, and other interventions do not include schools, and yet over 50 percent of the country’s population is below 15 years of age, and the majority are in school. Speaking to …

Kinshasa, DRC | URN | Health experts responding to the ongoing Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have revealed that despite the high number of people who continue to get confirmed positive for virus, they are still getting only half of the people they are …

As the number of Bundibugyo Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pushes past 1,000, doctors continue to fight the disease without a vaccine or cure. But the country’s top Ebola scientist tells SciDev.Net “there is still hope for this epidemic”. The outbreak detected in early May has spread rapidly across …

GENEVA | TASS | The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could cause economic losses for African countries of up to $3.6 billion and threaten more than 300,000 jobs on the continent, according to Damien Mama, UN Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative and Acting Humanitarian Coordinator …