A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked.

At the heart of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, health care workers are racing to open new treatment centers and ramp up testing. But after years of war, the deadly virus is just one of many challenges they’re facing.

The court further delayed the Trump administration’s proposed quarantine unit for Americans exposed to the virus. The plan has sparked angry protests in Kenya.

The vote comes at a critical moment for the country, which faces fears of renewed conflict in the Tigray region and tensions with Eritrea over access to the Red Sea.

A remote gold mining town is under siege, as medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections.

Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, walked inside an Ebola ward where both adults and children were being treated, and where someone had recently died of the disease amid a spiraling outbreak in the region. This is what he saw.

In a country fractured by civil war and other crises, he held the title of president from 2012 to 2022 and was widely seen as an ineffective ruler.

The students could be charged next week, Kenya’s education minister said, after the blaze broke out on Thursday at a school run by Kenya’s police.

The order came after U.S. officials said that a 50-bed facility was being established in the African country to house American citizens exposed to the virus.

It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, which was the latest in a series of deadly fires at schools in the country in recent years.

Anti-immigrant protests have increased across South Africa, drawing forceful condemnation from several African leaders.

Ebola response teams and a few others are exempt and will undergo “strict health screening,” a top Ugandan official said.

The types of Ebola and hantavirus panicking officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.

Lenacapavir, which protects people from H.I.V. infection with twice-yearly shots, is arriving in a country where the health system has been hollowed out by American aid cuts.

In a forest in Madagascar, the demise of a centuries-old baobab points to the fraying of a fragile ecosystem.

The deadly virus has spread alarmingly in Congo for months. Only now is the response taking shape.

The team, now in Belgium, must isolate there for 21 days or risk being denied permission to come to Houston for the World Cup, an official said.

Kinshasa residents continue to pack markets, bars and public transportation, despite growing international concern about the spread of the virus.

Several hundred people massed at the gates of a hospital to demand the body of a suspected Ebola victim. Violence broke out when staff refused the request.

Hunger and conflict are on the minds of the residents of Akobo, where an outbreak could have devastating consequences.