Kinshasa, May 24 (IANS) The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has temporarily suspended all passenger flights to and from Bunia, the capital of the northeastern Ituri Province that is the epicentre of the ongoing Ebola outbreak, the Ministry of Transport have said. An Ebola outbreak was declared in Ituri on May 15, with Bunia among the main affected areas. According to an official statement on Saturday (local time), no aircraft will be allowed to land at or take off from B…
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Geneva, May 23 (IANS) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has said that he is allocating up to $60 million from the world body’s Central Emergency Response Fund to accelerate the response to the Ebola outbreak in Congo and the wider region.”We need to get ahead of this Ebola outbreak,” Fletcher said on Friday in a statement.While the humanitarian community is fully mobilised, he said, “the epidemiological context is challenging: the…
Kigali, May 17 (IANS) The border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the former’s Rubavu District were closed on Sunday following the Ebola outbreak in DRC, an official said.The Mayor of Rubavu District in Rwanda’s Western Province, Prosper Mulindwa, told local media that the closure of the borders linking Goma and Rubavu-Gisenyi border will remain in place for an indefinite period as part of measures aimed at preventing the spread of the deadly disease.”The borders …
Kinshasa, May 16 (IANS) Roger Kamba, health minister of Congo, warned Saturday that the newly declared Ebola outbreak in the eastern province of Ituri involves the Bundibugyo strain, which has a high fatality rate and carries a significant risk of further spread.”The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine and no specific treatment,” Kamba told a press briefing in the capital Kinshasa, adding that the strain has “a very high lethality rate which can reach 50 per cent.”Congo declared a new Ebola outbrea…