Two potential treatments are being tested on confirmed Ebola patients in Ituri

This outbreak, caused by the **Bundibugyo virus**, has become the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded and the fastest-spreading in Congo’s history.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has tested and isolated about 200 passengers from a river boat intercepted in Kinshasa after a traveller died of suspected Ebola. Africa CDC says the move is aimed at containing the outbreak as authorities weigh broader vaccination efforts.

UNICEF says the use of essential services has dropped by 42 per cent in the primary outbreak hotspots in the east of the country.

People living in Kinshasa are trying to maintain their daily routines, even as the ebola outbreak is worsening in other parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

More health workers went on strike in Bunia in eastern Congo on Wednesday, becoming the latest group to walk off the job over unpaid salaries at the center of the country's Ebola outbreak.

After discharging its last Ebola patient on Thursday, Uganda will start a 42-day countdown to declaring the country free of the virus.

At Kenya’s largest mental health referral hospital, male patients are offered a different kind of therapy: a personal grooming session provided by two visiting barbers. Healthcare workers say personal grooming is an important aspect of recovery, as patients often lose interest in self-care.

Relatives waited outside Abu Tig hospital in Egypt's southern Assiut province on Tuesday for the bodies of nine children killed when a motorised tricycle plunged into a canal. The victims were aged between 10 and 17.

The UN health body says another 1,102 suspected cases have been reported since May in isolated war zones across the country.