WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus visited Bunia, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province on Saturday, meeting with officials as cases of the deadly illness rise.
Health workers wearing protective equipment gather to disinfect the isolation area for Ebola patients at the General Referral Hospital of Mongbwalu in Mongbwalu, on May 23, 2026.
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2026Ghebreyesus visits Bunia and says in a statement he updated the prime minister on the WHO’s “coordination and collaboration with multiple partners in support of the government-led response.”
The WHO reported 134 confirmed Ebola cases and 18 deaths among those who were confirmed to have contracted the illness in the DRC and Uganda (there were 906 suspected cases and 223 deaths as of May 27).
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2026Reports emerge that the Kenyan court issued an order—with no end date—temporarily suspending the establishment of the Ebola quarantine center, which the Trump administration said it had hoped to have running by Friday. Health officials in Kenya have criticized the plan to build such a facility for foreigners in a nation that has never had a recorded case of Ebola: “This quarantine center is American-focused. There are no plans for Kenyans who get infected by Ebola,” Davji Atellah, secretary general of the local doctors union, told the New York Times.
