Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
We need to get ahead of this Ebola outbreak. Today, I am allocating up to $60 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to accelerate the response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the wider region.
The humanitarian community is fully mobilised. As in previous outbreaks, Dr. Tedros and his colleagues at the World Heath Organization are leading, with courage and expertise. The epidemiological context is challenging: there are not yet licensed vaccines or treatments for the Bundibugyo strain.
These are some of the most difficult operating environments in the world for our life-saving work. We face conflict and high population movement. We are working to secure safe and sustained access for frontline responders, including to areas controlled by armed groups. It is essential that there is no obstruction of our response. We must have access to all routes – air, land and water – across the affected areas.
We are applying lessons from previous outbreaks. Containment depends on fast, coordinated action at the community level. We need strong communication with Governments, and effective early warning and detection systems across affected counties. Community trust is essential: we will continue delivering wider humanitarian support to people affected, engage closely with them to understand their needs, preposition supplies where possible, and avoid militarised delivery of support.
I am grateful to the United States for their swift financial contribution to support the response.
I am in close contact with our Humanitarian Coordinators and the teams in DRC, Uganda and South Sudan. More staff from key UN agencies and partners are deploying this weekend to reinforce the effort. I pay tribute to the communities and humanitarians working to contain this outbreak.
22 May 2026
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