Africa’s top public health body has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s Ituri province, the 17th since the disease first emerged in the country in 1976.
A total of 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths have already been recorded in the new outbreak, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement on Friday.
Here’s what to know about the health crisis:
The suspected Ebola cases have mainly been recorded in Ituri's Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones. Suspected cases have also been reported in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province.
So far, only four of the deaths reported are laboratory-confirmed cases, but the new outbreak was confirmed after many suspected cases.
Ituri is in a remote eastern part of Congo with poor road networks, and is more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the nation’s capital, Kinshasa.
One major concern, the Africa CDC said, is the proximity of affected areas to Uganda and South Sudan. Bunia, Ituri's main city, is near the border with Uganda.
The agency said there's also risk of further spread due to intense population movement and attacks by armed groups that have killed dozens and displaced thousands in parts of Ituri province in the past year.
There are also gaps in contact tracing, the Africa CDC said, as local authorities race to find those who might have been exposed to the virus.
Africa CDC said results so far suggest a non-Zaire Ebola virus. It said sequencing is ongoing to further characterize the strain, with results expected within the next 24 hours.
The Ebola Zaire strain was prominent in Congo’s past outbreaks, including the 2018 to 2020 outbreak in the eastern region that killed more than 1,000 people.
The World Health Organization said during Congo's Ebola outbreak last year that the country has a stockpile of treatments and some 2,000 doses of vaccine. However, the vaccine is directed at Ebola Zaire, it said.
Dr. Gabriel Nsakala, a professor of public health who has been involved in past Ebola outbreak responses in Congo, said treatments for viral infections like Ebola are often directed at symptoms and that efforts regarding vaccines would become clearer when the strain in the new outbreak is confirmed.
The Africa CDC has convened an urgent high-level coordination meeting Friday with health authorities from Congo, Uganda and South Sudan, together with key partners including U.N. agencies and other countries.
The meeting, the agency said, will focus on immediate response priorities, cross-border coordination, surveillance, safe and dignified burials and resource mobilization, among other areas.
Congo and health workers on the ground have a high level of experience from past outbreaks, in addition to existing infrastructure such as laboratories, said Nsakala. "Now, the expertise and equipment need to be delivered quickly,” he added.
Congo is Africa’s second-largest country by land area and often faces logistical challenges in responding to disease outbreaks due to bad roads and long distances.
During last year’s outbreak, which lasted three months, the WHO initially faced significant challenges in delivering vaccines, which took a week after the outbreak was confirmed.
Funding has also been problematic. During last year's outbreak, health officials were concerned about the impact of recent U.S. funding cuts.
The U.S. had supported the response to Congo’s past Ebola outbreaks, including in 2021 when the U.S. Agency for International Development provided up to $11.5 million to support efforts across Africa.
The Ebola virus is highly contagious and can be transmitted to people from wild animals. It then spreads in the human population through contact with bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen, and with surfaces and materials such as bedding and clothing contaminated with these fluids.
The disease it causes is a rare but severe — and often fatal — illness in people. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and at times internal and external bleeding.
The virus was first discovered in 1976, near the Ebola River in what is now Congo. The first outbreaks occurred in remote villages in Central Africa, near tropical rainforests.
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Saleh Mwanamilongo in Bonn, Germany contributed.
FILE - A health worker sprays disinfectant on his colleague after working at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, eastern Congo, Sept 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro, File)
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2026--
Xsolla, a leading global video game commerce company, today announced a new server-to-server (S2S) integration with Tenjin, a mobile measurement and analytics platform trusted by more than 30,000 apps worldwide.
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The integration connects Web Shop purchase data directly to Tenjin's attribution and analytics platform, giving developers a complete view of player lifetime value (LTV) and return on ad spend (ROAS) across both in-app and web transactions. For studios running direct-to-consumer web shops alongside their mobile games, the integration closes a gap that has made it difficult to tie off-platform revenue back to the marketing spend that drove it.
For mobile game studios, the challenge has never been building a Web Shop, it's been knowing whether it's working. Marketing budgets are allocated based on where revenue can be measured, and until now, Web Shop transactions have existed entirely outside that picture. Revenue was real, yet its connection to any specific campaign, channel, or user acquisition spend was invisible. That gap has made it difficult for studios to justify scaling their D2C efforts, even when the economics were clearly favorable.
This integration closes that loop. By routing Web Shop purchase events into Tenjin as S2S events and attributing them to the correct install source, studios gain a single, accurate view of how every marketing dollar is performing across both app store and web. The result is cleaner unit economics, more defensible budget decisions, and a growth model built on complete data rather than assumptions.
Developers using the integration can:
The integration works by sending Web Shop purchase events to Tenjin as S2S events, which are then attributed to the correct install source. No coding is required. Developers can activate it directly through their Xsolla Publisher Account and Tenjin dashboard, making it accessible to studios of any size.
"Developers build Web Shops to keep more of what they earn. This integration makes sure they can actually measure that. When Web Shop revenue flows into Tenjin alongside in-app data, studios get a clear picture of their unit economics and can put budget behind the campaigns that deliver healthy margins. This is the type of visibility that drives better decisions," said Roman Garbar, Marketing Director at Tenjin.
"Web Shops have moved from an emerging opportunity to a proven growth channel – and the developers winning right now are the ones treating them as a core part of their business, not an afterthought. More than 700 studios have launched Web Shops on our platform because the economics are compelling. Integrating that revenue data with best-in-class measurement tools like Tenjin is the next step in making sure developers have everything they need to scale confidently," said Chris Hewish, President at Xsolla.
The Tenjin S2S integration is available now through the Xsolla Publisher Account. To learn more, visit: https://xsolla.pro/Tenjin
About Xsolla
Xsolla is a global commerce company that builds and provides all the things developers need to launch, grow, and monetize video games. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company supports studios of every size, from indie to AAA, with solutions across direct-to-consumer commerce, intelligent payments, entertainment-based IP, and player engagement products. Xsolla helps developers fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games at scale. Trusted by more than 60% of the top 100 highest-grossing games, Xsolla operates as the merchant of record across 200+ geographies with access to over 1,000+ local payment methods worldwide. Grounded in a deep belief in the future of gaming, Xsolla is resolute in bringing opportunities together and unlocking growth for creators everywhere.
For more information, visit xsolla.com
About Tenjin
Tenjin helps fast-growing mobile publishers scale with simple, powerful advertising measurement. For a flat $200/month, you get full access to all features - no hidden fees and can cancel anytime. The all‑inclusive suite includes attribution, LTV prediction, cost aggregation, and more. Trusted by 30,000+ apps and thousands of partners, Tenjin has been driving results since its Y Combinator graduation in 2014.
For more information, visit tenjin.com
Chris Hewish, President at Xsolla
Xsolla Partners With Tenjin to Connect Web Shop Revenue With Mobile Marketing Performance
