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Red Cross workers carry the body of a person who died of Ebola into a coffin at a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Priya Kathpal, right, and Taylor Williamson, left, who work for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, carry signs outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the center of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

People protest in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels' advances into eastern Congo's capital Goma. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Deforestation is visible near the Muchacha mine in November 2020, near the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Congo. (AP Photo)

Emile Miango, 2, who has mpox, lies in the hospital, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, which is the epicenter of the world’s latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Roseline Ujah, 49, sits on her bed in Umuida, Nigeria, Feb. 11, 2022. Doctors at a local hospital suspect her husband Godwin died of COVID-19, but there were no tests available locally to confirm their diagnosis. Many widows in Africa say the pandemic has taken more than their husbands: In their widowhood, it’s cost them their extended families, their homes and their futures. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)