{"id":48810,"date":"2026-10-22T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48810"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:18:00","slug":"president-ramaphosa-reaffirms-sa-support-for-africa-cdc-ebola-response","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/president-ramaphosa-reaffirms-sa-support-for-africa-cdc-ebola-response\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ramaphosa reaffirms SA support for Africa CDC Ebola response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country remains fully committed to championing the African Union&#8217;s (AU) pandemic preparedness efforts and bolstering the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to curb the regional spread of Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa made the remarks while addressing the media in Sandton, Johannesburg, following his keynote address at the SA National Leadership Convening on Youth Employment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Expressing deep concern over cross-border transmission of the virus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria, Ramaphosa described the expanding health crisis as a calamity that demands immediate and unified continental intervention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Underlining SA\u2019s role as the AU Champion on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response, Ramaphosa urged member states to step up cross-border health surveillance and support Africa CDC-led co-ordination mechanisms to protect vulnerable populations and contain the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48571,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48810","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"President Ramaphosa calls for unified continental action against spreading Ebola outbreak","published_date":"2026-10-22 18:17:29","news_description":"President Ramaphosa calls for unified continental action against spreading Ebola outbreak","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48810","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\/48810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48812,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48810\/revisions\/48812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}