{"id":738488,"date":"2026-08-15T04:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:58:20","slug":"ebola-outbreak-complicated-by-lack-of-resources-oxfam-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738488\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak ‘complicated by lack of resources’, Oxfam says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxfam aid workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have warned that the latest Ebola outbreak has been exacerbated by cuts to the foreign aid budget.<\/p>\n

The current outbreak has killed more than 2,000 people and is on track to surpass the deadliest ever<\/a>, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

Oxford researchers are trying to prevent the spread, and recently began a world-first trial<\/a> to test a new Ebola vaccine developed in the city.<\/p>\n

The BBC has contacted the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office for a comment.<\/p>\n

In 2025, the government announced it would cut about \u00a36bn from the overseas budget by 2027<\/a> in order to fund an increase in defence spending.<\/p>\n

In DR Congo, Oxfam’s Ebola field response co-ordinator, Manel Rebordosa, said the situation was “complicated” by a “lack of resources”.<\/p>\n

“I was here in 2018 and also in 2014 and there is a huge difference on the mobilisation of resources at the international level to respond to this outbreak,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You can see that things that we used to do very easily in the past, now we are not really able to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oxfam aid workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have warned that the latest Ebola outbreak has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}