{"id":43968,"date":"2026-08-28T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43968"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:06:07","slug":"un-warns-ebola-response-funding-could-run-out-within-weeks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/un-warns-ebola-response-funding-could-run-out-within-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"UN warns Ebola response funding could run out within weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United Nations (UN) is warning that the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could run out of money within weeks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The UN is appealing for an additional $1.1 billion\u00a0to assist the situation in DRC.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He says the funding is also to prevent an already fast-growing epidemic from becoming a catastrophe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres says the outbreak is spreading faster than the international effort to contain it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So far more than 2 700 people have already died.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34676,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-43968","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"DRC Ebola outbreak","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43969,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43968\/revisions\/43969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}