Ebola in DRC: Governance must precede vaccine triumph
The news from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is not merely a report on disease; it is a stark accounting of institutional collapse.
By Caroline Ashford ·
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Congo's Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet
The headline—"it can be stopped"—is dangerously facile. It suggests that this protracted crisis in eastern Congo is merely a matter of logistics or enough doses arriving on time.
By Tom Beckwith ·
What to know about the outbreak of a rare kind of Ebola
There are moments in global reporting when the sheer weight of human suffering becomes so overwhelming that it threatens to break the journalistic impulse entirely.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
M23's Lake Edward closures show institutional decay in Kivu del Norte
The mechanism of crisis management—the imposition of movement restrictions—is ancient.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Ebola in the DRC shows sophisticated science cannot fix fiscal neglect
The headlines are always dramatic when a novel pathogen strikes—a race against time, an exponential curve, a potential record-breaker.
By Dana Whitfield ·
DRC’s Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, says WHO
The narrative emerging from the Democratic Republic of Congo is not a story of biological novelty; it is a textbook case study in policy latency.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Unpaid wages compromise care at Elikya Ebola Treatment Center
The most dangerous pathogen in any crisis is not always the one with the highest fatality rate; sometimes it is the systemic rot that undermines the very structures meant to contain it.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Ebola outbreak in DRC the fastest growing in the history of the virus
They call it a health crisis; I call it an economic reckoning in slow motion.
By Maya Ellison ·
Uganda declares end to Ebola outbreak
The moment a nation declares itself free of a scourge like Ebola—a viral hemorrhagic disease that demands such brutal vigilance—is never merely a medical announcement; it is an…
By Elena Rossi ·