The deadly virus has spread alarmingly in Congo for months. Only now is the response taking shape.

The team, now in Belgium, must isolate there for 21 days or risk being denied permission to come to Houston for the World Cup, an official said.

Kinshasa residents continue to pack markets, bars and public transportation, despite growing international concern about the spread of the virus.

Several hundred people massed at the gates of a hospital to demand the body of a suspected Ebola victim. Violence broke out when staff refused the request.

Hunger and conflict are on the minds of the residents of Akobo, where an outbreak could have devastating consequences.

The Department of Homeland Security directed all flights carrying certain travelers to arrive at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

The State Department said it would fund up to 50 clinics in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. “I don’t know the ones they are talking about,” a top Ugandan official said.

An Air France plane was sent to Montreal because a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo was on board. The U.S. has closed its borders to recent visitors to the African country.

Arie and Chuko Esiri take a team approach to their filmmaking, and the results with their Nigerian-set adaptation “Clarissa” have wowed the festival.

Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa.

To some Africans, the claim that the continent’s largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said criticism of the World Health Organization may have reflected a “lack of understanding” about how the agency works.

The warning came shortly after Congo officials reported more than 130 suspected deaths and 513 cases, a sharp rise since the outbreak was first reported over the weekend.

Étienne Davignon had been set to stand trial in connection with the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Early surveillance and testing failed to identify Bundibugyo, a rare species of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak.

U.S. military launched attack in coordination with Nigerian forces days after President Trump said a joint operation had killed Islamic State’s global leader.

The humanitarian relief system, decimated by cuts, faces a grave challenge as the Middle East war causes soaring costs for food, fuel and fertilizer.

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after about 80 people died from the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Just a day after the outbreak was announced, cases were confirmed in the capitals of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is no approved vaccine for the strain.

One of his country’s richest businessmen, he fled arrest and escaped prosecution for allegedly financing and directing the bloodletting that cost 800,000 lives in 1994.