DRC: MSF hands over Ebola activities to local health authorities

Bulape/Kinshasa, 29 October 2025 – After several weeks of collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and local authorities, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams handed over all activities at the Bulape Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) last Friday.  The last confirmed case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was recorded on 26 September, and … Read more

Ebola in DRC’s Kasai Province: 4 Things to Know About the Response

Since the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic was declared in Bulape (Kasai) on 4 September, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been supporting the Ministry of Health in its response. From the outset, MSF teams have been treating patients and building treatment and isolation centres. Now that the epidemic appears to be under control, Dr. Maria … Read more

DRC Ebola outbreak crisis update: June 2020

New outbreak declared in Equateur province On 1 June 2020, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared its eleventh Ebola outbreak since records began, following the revelation of new cases of Ebola in Equateur province, northwestern DRC. Less than two years since the last outbreak of the disease ended in Equateur province – and while the country is … Read more

DRC Ebola outbreak: How the Ebola response failed the people of DRC

Today as the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s second-worst Ebola outbreak, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is finally nearing its end. Over the past months, the number of Ebola cases has finally dwindled. Having lasted over 18 months and resulting in the deaths of over 2,250 people, we are now in a countdown to … Read more

DRC: Ebola response overshadows already fragile health system

In Mabalako, a rural health zone in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Ebola epidemic has taken its toll on the fragile health system. Many doctors and health workers have been hired by the internationally-funded Ebola response, leaving health centres and the regional hospital short of staff and financial … Read more

DRC ebola outbreak: Independent Ebola vaccination committee is needed to overcome lack of WHO transparency

PARIS/GOMA – More than a year into the ongoing Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the disease has killed over 2,000 people. The mortality rate in this outbreak is around 67 per cent [1], which is comparable with the mortality rate in the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak, when neither therapeutic treatments, nor a … Read more