Africa has secured approximately $498.8 million in pledges and commitments to strengthen response efforts against the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola Virus outbreak across affected and high-risk countries.
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The Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Jean Kaseya, disclosed this on Monday, May 26, 2026, in a post shared on X.
Kaseya said African governments and development partners were working together to mobilise resources and coordinate response operations as the outbreak continues to spread across parts of Central Africa.
“Today, during the High-Level Ministerial Meeting, governments and partners announced approximately US$498.8 million in pledges and commitments to strengthen response efforts across affected and high-risk countries,” he said.
He described the commitments as a strong demonstration of African solidarity, leadership and collective responsibility in protecting the continent’s health security.
Kaseya noted that as the outbreak continues to evolve in a complex environment, trust, coordination and rapid response remain critical to stopping transmission and saving lives.
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, also raised concern over the pace of the outbreak, saying the death toll linked to the Bundibugyo Ebola Virus had risen to 220.
“At the moment, the epidemic is outpacing us,” he said.
The Bundibugyo strain currently driving the outbreak has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment. It is regarded as one of the rarest Ebola species known to infect humans and has previously been linked to only two outbreaks, first in Uganda in 2007 and later in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012.
Most Ebola vaccines and antibody treatments currently available were developed for the more widespread Zaire Ebola strain, which caused the 2014 to 2016 West African Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people.
The latest funding commitments followed an earlier emergency allocation by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Last week, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, announced that up to $60 million had been released from the UN emergency response fund to support efforts to contain the outbreak.
The allocation came five days after the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, warning that there was no approved vaccine or specific treatment for the Bundibugyo strain spreading across parts of Central Africa.
Major pledges announced during the ministerial meeting included $160 million from the World Bank for Congo, $82 million from the United States, and about $57 million from European partners.
The outbreak continues to affect parts of Central Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
In the DRC, authorities have recorded 906 suspected cases, 105 confirmed cases, 223 suspected deaths and 10 confirmed deaths linked to the outbreak.
Uganda has so far reported seven confirmed cases and one confirmed death, with health officials saying five of the cases have clear epidemiological links to the first two confirmed infections.
The fresh pledges are expected to support surveillance, case management, contact tracing, community engagement, infection prevention, logistics and emergency health operations across affected and high-risk countries.
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