African leaders convened a high-level virtual summit on Tuesday to rally support for the continent’s $518 million response plan to curb the Ebola outbreak in East Africa.
Noting that the outbreak had 800 cases and 200 new deaths, the summit emphasised the importance of improving national and regional response plans, strengthening cross-border coordination, and increasing preparedness.
"Delayed action has the potential to escalate a localised outbreak into a regional and global crisis. That is why our response must focus on breaking the transmission and stopping Ebola at its source," South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
He stressed that efforts must focus on breaking transmission and stopping Ebola at its source while announcing an increase in South Africa’s contribution from $5 million to $13.5 million.
Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said the outbreak must be stopped as soon as possible to avoid a worse scenario than what occurred in West Africa and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The summit, convened by African Union (AU) chairperson and Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye, was also attended by DR Congo President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, the leaders of two countries currently experiencing the outbreak.
It served as a forum for urgent political commitment, financial resources, and operational assistance to strengthen Africa's collective response to the outbreak and reinforce continental health security.
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