The EU is stepping up humanitarian support with an additional €5 million as the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to experience its biggest Ebola outbreak to date. The confirmed death toll of the epidemic now stands at over 1,000 people, the European Commission announced on Monday 13 May.
These funds, released from the budget of the Commission's ECHO Humanitarian Aid department, will bring the total EU funding since the outbreak of the epidemic in August 2018 (see EUROPE B12122A11)...