Volunteers go door-to-door in Congo to tackle Ebola rumors, Red Cross says

Volunteers are going door-to-door to combat misinformation about Ebola in the area at the centre of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

WHO chief says Ebola outbreak in Congo is ‘spreading rapidly’ and upgrades risk assessment

The head of the World Health Organization said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is “spreading rapidly” and now poses a “very high” risk at the national level. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN health agency was revising upward to “very high” its assessment of the risk within Congo,

US funding cuts have hampered response to the deadly Ebola crisis, aid workers say

As a deadly Ebola outbreak tears through northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo, many first responders are turning a critical eye on events that preceded the crisis: layoffs of health workers funded by the United States,

Ebola treatment center set alight in Congo

An Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo was set alight as a group tried to retrieve the body of a person who died of the virus. The treatment center was not operational but was used to store bodies before a proper burial,

Crowd sets Ebola hospital tents on fire in DRC

An angry crowd has set fire to part of a hospital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after the death of a suspected Ebola victim. The BBC understands relatives stormed the facility and tried to remove the body after health workers refused to release it.