Outbreak

Travellers move through an airport terminal as health screening tightens across East Africa amid a regional Ebola emergency.

The Door at the End of the Jet Bridge: How Congo's Ebola Surge Is Testing Kenya's Borders and the Diaspora's Way Home

As confirmed cases in DR Congo pass 1,300 and the outbreak reaches a fourth province, Kenya tightens airport screening and a US-backed quarantine plan puts Nairobi at the centre of the response.

about 2 months ago5 min

A nurse in full personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment unit, illustrating frontline outbreak response work.

Health

The Doctor Who Carried It Across Borders: How Congo's Ebola Outbreak Reached Kinshasa, Uganda, and a Watching Diaspora

A virus with no vaccine has killed hundreds in eastern Congo, slipped into Uganda, and forced a capital of 18 million to ban crowds. East Africa's diaspora is watching the map.

about 2 months ago5 min