Angry backlash as US bars citizens from entering directly from Congo's Ebola zone
President Donald Trump, walks near Marine One, as he returns to the Ellipse near the White House after attending a defence and innovation summit at U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.
US requires Americans leaving Congo to quarantine 21 days
Policy will hamper recruitment, raise costs, CEO of relief organisation warns
Group that operates Ebola treatment centres with largest number of US responders in the DRC may scale back operations
CDC cites Ebola concerns; humanitarian exceptions remain possible
Washington's new policy that says American citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is an Ebola outbreak, must spend 21 days in a third country before entering the US will hinder the response to the epidemic, the head of a large American aid group said.
Franklin Graham, the CEO of an organisation that operates Ebola treatment centres and deploys what he described as the largest number of American responders in Congo, said that he will have to scale back the mission because the quarantine order will complicate the recruitment of healthcare workers.
