WHO warns Ebola cases in DRC could double
May 19, 2026•48 min
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Summary
The episode details the escalating Ebola crisis in DR Congo, exacerbated by conflict and US global health funding cuts. It highlights an innovative brain aneurysm surgery and covers a controversial presidential pardon in Honduras, plus a Spanish magnate's son's arrest. Geopolitical analysis includes Putin's China visit and asymmetrical relations. A distressing report from Afghanistan reveals a severe hunger crisis, forcing families to sell children. The program concludes with Arsenal's Premier League victory and the scientific explanation of mysterious humpback whale sounds.Episode description
We hear from a journalist in eastern DR Congo on how situation is becoming more and more difficult for people in the city of Goma, a major transport hub - and we speak to Tom Frieden, a leading US scientist involved in fighting the last major Ebola outbreak.
Also on the programme: An interview with former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, pardoned by Donald Trump, now in hiding in the US. We have a rare report from inside Afghanistan. And an age-old mystery at sea has been solved - we hear how biologists rumbled the whale.
(Photo: UNICEF staff receive medical supplies from an aircraft in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19, 2026. Credit: REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere)
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