A medical staff member disinfects a door at Bunia General Hospital in Bunia, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3 June 2026. ( Kystone/EPA/Dieudonne Dirole))

📩World is letting a ‘preventable disaster’ play out in Congo with Ebola, say leaders. An open letter letter, signed by dozens, including former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, calls on countries to finalise the delayed pandemic deal as they gear up to discuss response to global health crises in New York at the General Assembly in September.

🦠DRC’s Ebola response must be anchored locally: Muyembe. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director general of Congo’s National Institute of Biomedical Research, talks about the response to the outbreak while calling for avoiding “asymmetrical” care between those on one side or the other of the ongoing conflict.

🇵🇸ICYMI: ILO member states reject US-backed Israeli challenge to Palestine’s status. Last week, countries overwhelmingly backed Palestine’s membership at the UN labour agency after upgrading its status last year from national liberation movement to observer state.

🧕🏼UN protests women's arrests in Afghanistan for alleged clothing violations. Its country mission told the Taliban authorities that “all persons, both women and men, are entitled to equality before the law”. According to Taliban rules, women cannot leave the house without fully covering themselves, except for the eyes.

❝The next UN leader needs a vision for Geneva’s diplomatic role. Geneva has stood the test of time as a key diplomatic venue. However, that role is fading due to the absence of direction from the top, writes Daniel Safran-Hon, a former political affairs officer in the office of the UN secretary general.