Sud-Ubangi
North-western DR Congo province on the Ubangi river.
Sud-Ubangi, a province in DR Congo's FAR north-west on the Ubangi river, has had Ebola since 10 September 2026, when a passenger on a river boat from Kisangani carried the Bundibugyo virus about 1,000 km downriver.
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Timeline for Sud-Ubangi
Recorded two confirmed cases by 1 October
Pandemics and Biosecurity: Ebola reaches Sud-Ubangi by river boatBackground
Sud-Ubangi is a province in DR Congo's FAR north-west, with its capital at Gemena. It sits across the Ubangi river from the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo, and river boats link its ports to Kisangani and the rest of the Congo basin.
Ebola reached it by water. Interim governor Jean-René Galekwa Vundawe declared an outbreak on 10 September 2026 after an index case travelled about 1,000 km on the boat Ville de Gbadolite from Kisangani, capital of Tshopo, to Akula port. By 22 September the province had its second confirmed case; both sit in the Gbulu health zone. Sud-Ubangi's doctors had walked out over unpaid registration when the cases arrived, in a strike led by Dr Grace Ngilase.
DR Congo's health ministry flags a particular risk from the province's border position and river traffic. Africa CDC's director general, Jean Kaseya, lists both of its foreign neighbours among ten countries at risk of Ebola.