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Mogadishu (WDN) – The recurring Ebola outbreaks across Africa continue to pose a major public health threat, exposing the fragility of healthcare systems globally, particularly across many African countries with limited medical and emergency response capacity.

Somalia, with its fragile health infrastructure, porous borders, and weak institutional capacity, faces a serious and growing risk from the spread of Ebola, particularly as outbreaks and suspected cases continue to emerge in parts of East Africa. The country’s limited disease surveillance systems, shortage of medical facilities and trained healthcare personnel, and challenges in border monitoring significantly increase its vulnerability to a potential cross-border health crisis.

Also, the movement of people across largely uncontrolled borders, combined with ongoing insecurity and humanitarian pressures, makes early detection and containment extremely difficult.

Following the outbreak of Ebola, Democratic Republic of Congo, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), warned ten African nations are “at risk” that include Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Zambia