The political games that punctuated DR Congo's Ebola scourge
Maurice, 35-years-old, and Esperanze, 26-years-old, both Ebola survivors are seen outside their home in Beni, north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on September 17, 2019. PHOTO | JOHN WESSELS
What you need to know:
There are currently zero cases of Ebola in DR Congo after over a year of fighting an outbreak.
With a mortality rate of 66 per cent, this is DRC’s worst Ebola outbreak and the second worst in Africa, after West Africa 2016 epidemic that killed 11,000 people.
On July 17, 2019, the WHO had declared the DRC outbreak a global health emergency, placing the entire Great Lakes region on permanent alert, to include Rwanda and Uganda.
