French NGO Doctors Without Borders warned Monday that "dangerous gaps" remain in efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 180 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since the first reported cases a month ago, the virus has spread rapidly, with the situation now critical in Ituri province.
Issued on: 15/06/2026 - 14:23
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Despite a massive scale-up in the response to the deadly outbreak declared in the vast central African country, the medical charity MSF (Doctors without Borders), said the true scale of the crisis remained unclear. This strain is centred on the DRC's northeastern Ituri province, with cases also detected in North and South Kivu provinces. "One month on, the Ebola disease outbreak is outpacing the response effort," Kate White, MSF's emergency medical coordinator in the DRC, said in a statement on Monday. "No-one knows the true scale or exactly where the disease is spreading," she added. In Bunia, the capital of Ituri, young men are constantly digging new graves, RFI's special envoy reported. Janvier Sambabocu, the deputy representative of the largest cemetery in Bunia, said he was overwhelmed by the sheer number of burials. "Each day, almost ten bodies arrive. Before, it was three, four," he told RFI.
