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Africa pledges $910 million to boost Ebola response

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Medical workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) sanitise and wash their hands at an Ebola treatment centre during a ceremony to present recovery certificates to patients at the Rwambara General Reference Hospital in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, June 16, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere
Medical workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) sanitise and wash their hands at an Ebola treatment centre during a ceremony to present recovery certificates to patients at the Rwambara General Reference Hospital in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, June 16, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere Gradel Muyisa Mumbere Reuters

The African Union has pledged $910 million, including $80 million from African member states, to accelerate the Ebola Bundibugyo response in Congo and Uganda, its Centres for Disease ​Control and Prevention said in a statement on Thursday.

(Reporting by Abu Sultan in Bengaluru; editing by Barbara Lewis)

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This story was originally published June 18, 2026 at 2:36 AM.

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