{"id":48242,"date":"2026-10-16T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48242"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:32:22","slug":"over-700-million-in-ebola-response-funds-unaccounted-for-in-drc-africa-cdc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/over-700-million-in-ebola-response-funds-unaccounted-for-in-drc-africa-cdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Over $700 million in Ebola response funds unaccounted for in DRC: Africa CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Africa&#8217;s top public health body and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) health authorities this week called for greater transparency in the \u200buse of Ebola response funds, saying financial information provided \u200cby aid organisations left more than $700 million of donor money yet to be accounted for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The concerns could complicate the response as mistrust of \u200bhealth workers and agencies remains a key obstacle to \u200bcontaining the outbreak. Previous Ebola responses in DRC were \u2060marked by allegations of favouritism and corruption<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Doctor Jean Kaseya, \u200bDirector General of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told <i>Reuters<\/i> on Thursday it \u200bwas too early to speak of embezzlement, but described the gap as a major transparency and financial reporting problem that prevented authorities from having \u200ba full picture of resources mobilised and spent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">International donors \u200bhave disbursed about $962 million to organisations implementing Ebola response activities in DRC, rather \u200cthan \u2060to the government, Kaseya said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Only about a third of implementing partners attended a recent meeting organised by DRC&#8217;s Health Ministry and shared financial information, he said, adding that those organisations \u200breported receiving $228 million, \u200bof which $127 \u2060million had been spent and roughly $100 million remained available<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">DRC&#8217;s Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba echoed Kaseya&#8217;s concerns \u200bin a post on X on Thursday \u200bnight, saying \u2060aid groups are required to provide details on funding sources, goals and the level of implementation to his Ministry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kaseya warned that \u2060non-compliant \u200borganisations could be barred from working \u200bin DRC and blacklisted across Africa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48155,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-48242","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kaseya warned that \u2060non-compliant \u200borganisations could be barred from working \u200bin DRC and blacklisted across Africa","published_date":"","news_description":"Kaseya warned that \u2060non-compliant \u200borganisations could be barred from working \u200bin DRC and blacklisted across Africa","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48242","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48244,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48242\/revisions\/48244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}