The abrupt announcement, amid operating challenges and high oil prices, leaves the ride-hailing app with a diminished presence in Africa.

Uganda's final Ebola patient was discharged from hospital care on July 16.

The response to Congo’s raging Ebola epidemic has been hampered by a severe lack of funding and pervasive misinformation, according to people on the front lines.

The tourist aircraft crashed into Mount Ololokwe. Among the dead were a Telemundo executive and a Miami restaurateur.

“What we are seeing is shocking and far beyond the threshold of an extremely critical emergency,” one humanitarian official said.

Health experts are racing to stem the outbreak which WHO officials believe started months earlier than officially declared.