The Ebola Outbreak: Where Crisis Management Meets Humanitarian Failure The Democratic Republic of Congo's ongoing Ebola outbreak has claimed nearly 2,400 lives and counting, making it the deadliest in the country's history.
This epidemic is spreading at an alarming rate, which should not surprise us given similar outbreaks in West Africa in 2014.
The root causes of this outbreak are multifaceted and deeply ingrained in the region's complex web of conflict, poverty, and social disarray. Armed groups have ravaged parts of the eastern D. R. C.