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Congo, Saturday, May 23, 2026 [Moses Sawasawa/AP] ## Why are Kenyans protesting? Kenyans across the country are worried about the risks of importing Ebola into the country. Health workers in the country have also reacted with
Congo (DRC), the centre of the outbreak. First responders in the DRC say they lack basic supplies, which some have attributed to [foreign aid cuts](/news/2026/4/9/us-led-historic-foreign-aid-decline-in-2025-amid-trump-cuts-oecd) by major international donors, [particularly the United States](/news/2025/12/29/us-slashes-un-humanitarian-aid-to-2bn-huge-cut-as-trump-demands-reforms
Congo with nine confirmed cases in neighbouring Uganda. There is growing concern this outbreak – which was detected only after it had spread in a conflict zone with limited healthcare resources – could reach the size
Congo has detected the most outbreaks. This is its 17th since 1976. Exactly how humans pick up the virus remains a question mark. "We don't know for sure where it comes from
Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo) have been stark, their calls for coordinated international action impassioned. As the country reels from the return of the [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) virus, there is growing concern that its fragile
Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo) and Uganda scramble to contain an outbreak of Ebola. The [Global Preparedness Monitoring Board](https://www.gpmb.org/) (GPMB) said in a report [published on Monday](https://gpmb.org/reports/report-2026) that “as infectious
Congo’s (DRC) new Ebola disease outbreak, authorities said, as health workers race to intensify screening and contact tracing to contain the disease. Nearly 250 suspected cases of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever have been
Congo (DRC) are concerned about an Ebola outbreak in the country's Ituri province. There are already hundreds of suspected cases, including one that crossed the border into Uganda. The latest strain of the virus
Congo where some residents have protested against stringent medical protocols for handling victims’ bodies. “We can stop this [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) and anyone who has it can also recover. But the rule … is this
Congo (DRC) a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday. However WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in [a statement](https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern) it "does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency
Congo from high to “very high” as the deadly outbreak continues to spread. WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced on Friday that they were revising their risk assessment for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola
Congo and poses a “very high” risk at the national level. In the upside-down world of conspiracy theories it could be a bioweapon, a financial plot, or a scheme to extract national resources
Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. The WHO, however, stopped short of declaring a pandemic, saying it did not meet the necessary criteria. The United Nations agency advised countries against closing borders or restricting trade. Here
Congo (DRC) is grappling with a new Ebola outbreak just five months after declaring its previous epidemic over. The Bundibugyo strain, a type of Ebola virus first identified in neighbouring Uganda, is highly lethal