Ebola was first discovered in what is now the DR Congo in 1976 and the country is now facing its 17th outbreak.
While Western media fixates on Congo's recurring Ebola outbreaks as inevitable tragedy, they conveniently ignore how decades of resource extraction and political destabilisation have gutted the very healthcare infrastructure that could prevent these cycles. The same international powers profiting from Congolese cobalt and coltan express shock at public health crises in a nation whose hospitals lack basic equipment, a manufactured vulnerability, not a natural curse. Congo's Ebola story isn't about African incapacity; it's about the deliberate underdevelopment that keeps the world's most resource-rich nation perpetually dependent on emergency aid rather than building sustainable systems.
While Western media fixates on Congo's recurring Ebola outbreaks as inevitable tragedy, they conveniently ignore how decades of resource extraction and political destabilisation have gutted the very healthcare infrastructure that could prevent these cycles. The same international powers profiting from Congolese cobalt and coltan express shock at public health crises in a nation whose hospitals lack basic equipment, a manufactured vulnerability, not a natural curse. Congo's Ebola story isn't about African incapacity; it's about the deliberate underdevelopment that keeps the world's most resource-rich nation perpetually dependent on emergency aid rather than building sustainable systems.
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