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Kinshasa is advocating for a response governance focused on communities, amid unprecedented deaths in Lubero, unpaid healthcare workers in Kisangani, and a World Health Organization alert about an unprecedented pace.

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Beijing documents Africa's response efforts, including CGTN's on-the-ground reporting from Mongbwalu, the visible support from Africa CDC, and the SCMP's pickup of the WHO's alert on detection delays.

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France is analyzing an outbreak deemed "different" not so much due to its scope, but rather the unprecedented speed of its spread in the DRC.

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Nigeria is gauging the severity of the Congolese crisis in light of its own successful containment in 2014 in Lagos, between a grim toll and vaccine hopes surrounding candidate Ervebo.

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Doha is sounding the alarm, echoing the World Health Organization's warning: the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to become the deadliest in history, the second-largest outbreak ever recorded.

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Dakar is closely watching the river surveillance system deployed upstream of Kinshasa, with a keen eye informed by the memory of the 2014-2016 West African epidemic.

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London relays the WHO's admission - the epidemic began in February, three months before its declaration - and carefully distinguishes between the divergent numerical reports published by the BBC and The Independent.

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Pretoria is examining the concrete obstacles hindering the response to Ebola in the DRC, from rebel conflict to strikes by unpaid healthcare workers, while also noting the minor incident of a boat being quarantined near Kinshasa.

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