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Trabajadores de salud trabajan en el Centro Médico Evangélico, en Bunia, en el este de República Democrática del Congo, el viernes 3 de julio de 2026, donde estaba previsto hacer ensayos clínicos sobre el ébola. (AP Foto/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)

Majority of new Ebola cases are ‘from unknown chains of transmission,’ WHO official says

July 14, 2026 at 8:44 a.m.

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo “continues to outpace the response efforts,” the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said on Tuesday after returning from a trip to Bunia, in Ituri...

A health worker prepares a patient’s blood sample for testing at Bunia General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, Thursday, June 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

US citizen tests positive for Ebola in Congo

July 11, 2026 at 12:06 p.m.

A U.S. citizen working for a humanitarian organization in Congo has tested positive for the Ebola virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, as the...

A woman cries as Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola from a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Residents burn an Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak

May 21, 2026 at 2:19 p.m.

People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of...

People offload a shipment of more than 15 tons of supplies donated by UNICEF as part of the response to the Ebola virus outbreak at Bunia National Airport in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Ebola fears surge on the ground in Congo over rapid spread of a rare type

May 20, 2026 at 9:50 p.m.

Anxious healthcare workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the virus in one of the...

Gen. Michael Langley, USMC, Commander, U.S. Africa Command, center, and Major General Mohammed Berrid, Inspector General of Moroccan Royal Armed Forces, attend the 21st edition of the African Lion military exercise, in Tantan, south of Agadir, Morocco, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)

US military shifts messaging in Africa, telling allies to prepare to stand more on their own

May 25, 2025 at 12:59 p.m.

The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering insurgencies’ underlying causes, instead leaning into a message that its fragile allies in Africa must be...

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