Africa's top public health body has urged the United States to lift travel restrictions on Uganda, saying the country has recorded no new Ebola cases in three weeks and discharged its last patient earlier this month. Speaking at an African Union health summit in Ghana, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya cautioned that penalising countries for transparently reporting outbreaks discourages the openness needed to manage public health crises. The appeal comes even as Kaseya warned that the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rapidly deteriorating, with more than 2,300 confirmed cases and over 900 deaths since May — prompting Africa CDC to call for nearly $1.4 billion in international funding to prevent what could become the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record.