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Ebola: WHO chief travels to DR Congo

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BBC

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4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The head of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is travelling to the Democratic Republic of Congo as fears grow about the Ebola outbreak. Speaking ahead of his visit, Mr Ghebreysus warned that the country is facing a catastrophic collision of disease and conflict

Also in the programme: Israel has carried out a strike in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, after warning people in the south of the country to leave their homes; and why a tennis player's outfits are causing such a fuss at the French Open (Photo: Health workers in protective gowns and masks operate at a checkpoint set up for preventative measures against Ebola near Goma: Credit: EPA 2026 Shutterstock Editorial )

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.

0:09.3

Hello to you, welcome to Newsout, live from London in the studios of the BBC World Service.

0:15.5

I'm Sean Lay.

0:16.7

Half an hour from now, we'll hear from Lebanon, as Israel's military warns tens of thousands of people in the South that they should leave their homes.

0:24.8

Also, the misogynistic manosphere in Kenya.

0:28.3

And what's been your favourite sound of the year so far?

0:31.2

Here's one contender.

0:46.1

Sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. Find out what that sound really is a little later in New South.

0:55.5

We begin, though, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the DRC. Since it was first identified barely a fortnight ago there, there have been 10 confirmed and 223 suspected deaths in the latest outbreak of Ebola. But suspected cases

1:03.2

pushes the number of people likely to have contracted, the Bundy Buggy strain, near up to 1,000.

1:10.1

The Director General of the World Health Organisation,

1:13.0

the WHO, Dr. Tedros at Hamon Gabresas, is due in the DRC Thursday. He's warned that the collision

1:19.3

of disease and conflict could be catastrophic. The conflict is the insurgency involving

1:24.8

the M23 rebel group and government troops.

1:29.8

It's a brutal war, it's been waged for years,

1:33.4

and it's led to the forced displacement of thousands of civilians.

1:37.1

For a virus which spreads through person-to-person contact,

1:40.0

the chaos of war is an added complication as medics try to isolate and treat those infected.

1:43.4

I've been speaking to Dr Chiqué Ihae-Quazu.

1:46.8

He is executive director of the Hues Health Emergency Program.

1:50.5

He spoke to NewsHour from the DRC's capital, Kinshasa,

1:53.7

and I asked him how medics are approaching the problem

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