The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) requires significant investment into its health sector for the sake of global health security, Dr. Mike Ryan, the assistant director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) for emergencies on the Ebola response in the DRC, said on Thursday

Americans should reconsider traveling to Burundi due to crime and armed conflict, the US State Department said in a travel advisory on Wednesday.

Humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) has opened an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the province of North Kivu with almost 40 patients currently being treated at the facility, the organization said on Thursday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it was deploying its Preparedness Support Team in Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda as well as other countries bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the DRC.

President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a congratulatory message to President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo on the occasion of his country's National Day.