Family members of a victim who died from the Ebola virus mourn during the funeral at Rwampara Cemetery, in Rwampara, Congo, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) CORRECTION: City corrected to Rwampara, instead of Bunia
Aid efforts intensified in eastern Congo to curb the growing outbreak of a rare type of Ebola that the World Health Organization said could last for months. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Medical staff carry an Ebola patient to a treatment center in Rwampara, Congo, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Flames and smoke rise from an Ebola treatment center in Rwampara, Congo, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus washes his hands upon his arrival in Bunia, Congo, Saturday, May 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Machozi Naumi, 45, raises awareness of Ebola in the camp on the property of the city’s ISP (Institut Supérieur Pédagogique), where internally displaced people reside in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Charred hospital beds stand in smoldering Ebola treatment center in Rwampara, Congo, Thursday, May 21, 2026, after it was set fire by people angry at being stopped from retrieving a body, according to a witness and police. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)A health worker disinfects a person after transporting a suspected Ebola case to the General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)A woman mourns her child, who died of Ebola, at the General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)A health worker gets ready to start their shift at the Ebola treatment center in Rwampara, Congo, Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Workers offload medical and emergency supplies donated by European Union to support frontline workers in fighting Ebola upon arrival at the national airport in Bunia , Congo. Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Health workers collect meals for Ebola patients at the treatment center in Rwampara, Congo, Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Francois Kasereka, a member of the Congo Scouts movement, speaks to people during a public sensitisation campaign amid the Ebola outbreak in Bunia, Congo, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)A sanitation worker from the Bunia city government sprays chlorine to disinfect the central market, as Ituri province continues to combat an Ebola outbreak, in Bunia, Congo, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Seen through fence netting, a woman waits at the General Hospital where she brought her younger brother who was showing symptoms of Ebola in Bunia, Congo, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)A woman cries as Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola from a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Two women sit beside coffins at a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Relatives stand next to a pick-up truck carrying the coffin of a person who died of Ebola at a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)People offload a shipment of more than 15 tons of supplies donated by UNICEF as part of the response to the Ebola virus outbreak at Bunia National Airport in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Aid workers set up an Ebola treatment center in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)Red Cross workers carry the body of a person who died of Ebola into a coffin at a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)People in protective masks wait in the corridor of a hospital in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)Red Cross workers disinfect themselves after transporting the bodies of people who died of Ebola from a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)A girl sanitises her hands in front of Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/ Hajarah Nalwadda)A view inside a tent at a treatment centre where a person who died of Ebola was quarantined in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
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