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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is grappling with its 17th Ebola outbreak since virus was first identified in 1976.
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EU announces €5 million boost to Ebola response in DRC ⊕
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As Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo climb above 450 and fears grow of a wider regional outbreak, the European Union has announced an additional €5 million to strengthen testing and…
2 days ago
‘Racist mindsets’: Congolese in Ireland feel fear in wake of Yves Sakila’s death ○
After a death in Dublin with echoes of George Floyd, people of colour sense rising hostility
When Kembetia Bissa fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo and moved to Ireland in 2003 he found not onl…
3 days ago
Milo Rau turned tribunals into theatre. Now his own moral judgement is on trial ⊖
The Swiss director has staged court cases against Pussy Riot, mining companies in Congo and Gisèle Pelicot’s abusers. But after his invitation to Palantir founder Peter Thiel caused a row in Vienna, …
Ebola cases surge over 400 as fears grow over central Africa outbreak ⊖
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Health officials have warned the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda could become one of the largest on record after confirmed cases jumped to 471, prompting a major interna…
US doctor treated for Ebola released from German hospital ○
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a story from Politico EU ✅ › Politico EU
Peter Stafford had contracted the virus while working for a missionary group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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A disease of deforestation: how Ebola is linked to the smartphone in your pocket ⊖
As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin – and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaks
For decades after the discovery of Ebol…
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Rebel attacks in eastern DRC kill 30 people and hamper Ebola response ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Islamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinics
Rebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in th…
DRC Ebola outbreak could have begun as early as January, WHO chief says ○
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the virus ‘had a big head start’ but that the response was catching up
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could have begun as early as January,…
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2 researchers charged with smuggling mpox into the US ⊖
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a story from Politico EU ✅ › Politico EU
Employed at a National Institutes of Health lab in Montana, the two allegedly brought deactivated virus from the Republic of the Congo without a permit.