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Once a wealthy landowner, Ayatu Nure followed the age-old tradition of his people, and took more than one wife. In fact, he took twelve wives. Now he struggles to feed his 78 children. UNTV

The Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, told reporters that that the number of confirmed Ebola cases from the most recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, stands at 16, with a probable 27 additional cases, a total of 43 cases, including 34 deaths. UNIFEED / FILE

The UN resident coordinator in Yemen said there was “no other place in the world where so many people are suffering so greatly” describing the humanitarian situation in the country as “grim, heart-breaking, and nearly unprecedented in recent memory.” UNIFEED

The World Health Organization said today that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo “does not constitute a public health emergency of international concern.” WHO

Air pollution kills 7 million people each year. Around the world, 9 out of 10 people breathe air that has been polluted by traffic emissions, industry, agriculture and waste incineration, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. WHO

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, undertook a joint visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take stock of the situation and of joint efforts in response to the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu. MONUSCO

UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix and the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Ghebreyesus visited the Ebola medical center in Beni in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the epicenter of the current Ebola epidemic. MONUSCO

New measures to overcome challenges in the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are having a positive impact, although the outbreak remains dangerous and unpredictable, the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping and the World Health Organization (WHO) said after a joint mission to assess the outbreak. MONUSCO

The World Health Organization’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today visited an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that was attacked by armed groups last week and again earlier today. WHO

“Leaving the area is not an option”, said the WHO head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in the wake of repeated attacks on Ebola Treatment Centers in the DR Congo and explained that evacuation is not an option because “we will lose what we have gained so far, and not only that the virus will get a free ride to spread aggressively.” WHO