‘You are not alone’ in Ebola fight, says WHO chief heading to DR Congo

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus listens to a staff a press conference on Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, at the UN health agency’s headquarters in Geneva on May 20, 2026. (AFP)
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  • “I want to be with you during this time,” Ghebreyesus said

GENEVA: The head of the WHO, heading to the Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, pledged to do “everything in my power” to help conquer the deadly outbreak.
“I want to be with you during this time. And I want you to know that you are not alone,” the World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, in a lengthy message to the Congolese people posted on X.