{"id":131157,"date":"2026-09-18T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/?p=131157"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:35:18","slug":"encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k4b6BPD61BV6OkK1cdU\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nIn tonight&#8217;s edition, signs of a welcome slowdown in DR Congo&#8217;s Ebola outbreak. Also, about 20,000 Ethiopian university students in the northern region of Tigray will be relocated to other campuses across the country. And in northern Senegal, scientists are using fish to keep their food stoicks and communtites healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight&#8217;s edition, signs of a welcome slowdown in DR Congo&#8217;s Ebola outbreak. Also, about 20,000 Ethiopian university students in the northern region of Tigray will be relocated to other campuses across the country. And in northern Senegal, scientists are using fish to keep their food stoicks and communtites healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1535],"tags":[293,1786],"class_list":["post-131157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-dr-congo","tag-ebola"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In tonight&#039;s edition, signs of a welcome slowdown in DR Congo&#039;s Ebola outbreak. Also, about 20,000 Ethiopian university students in the northern region of Tigray will be relocated to other campuses across the country.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In tonight&#039;s edition, signs of a welcome slowdown in DR Congo&#039;s Ebola outbreak. Also, about 20,000 Ethiopian university students in the northern region of Tigray will be relocated to other campuses across the country.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-18T11:35:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\"},\"headline\":\"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-18T11:35:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":67,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"DR Congo\",\"Ebola\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Africa\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/\",\"name\":\"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight - GuardianTV\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-18T11:35:18+00:00\",\"description\":\"In tonight's edition, signs of a welcome slowdown in DR Congo's Ebola outbreak. Also, about 20,000 Ethiopian university students in the northern region of Tigray will be relocated to other campuses across the country.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":405,\"caption\":\"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"GuardianTV\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\",\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/author\\\/abiodun\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight - GuardianTV","description":"In tonight's edition, signs of a welcome slowdown in DR Congo's Ebola outbreak. Also, about 20,000 Ethiopian university students in the northern region of Tigray will be relocated to other campuses across the country.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight - GuardianTV","og_description":"In tonight's edition, signs of a welcome slowdown in DR Congo's Ebola outbreak. Also, about 20,000 Ethiopian university students in the northern region of Tigray will be relocated to other campuses across the country.","og_url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/","og_site_name":"GuardianTV","article_published_time":"2026-09-18T11:35:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":405,"url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Abiodun Ogundairo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Abiodun Ogundairo","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/"},"author":{"name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1"},"headline":"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight","datePublished":"2026-09-18T11:35:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/"},"wordCount":67,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg","keywords":["DR Congo","Ebola"],"articleSection":["Africa"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/","name":"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight - GuardianTV","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-18T11:35:18+00:00","description":"In tonight's edition, signs of a welcome slowdown in DR Congo's Ebola outbreak. Also, about 20,000 Ethiopian university students in the northern region of Tigray will be relocated to other campuses across the country.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/w720-p16x9-DN196789-A-01-20260908-01.jpg","width":720,"height":405,"caption":"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","name":"GuardianTV","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization","name":"GuardianTV","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","width":600,"height":96,"caption":"GuardianTV"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1","name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/author\/abiodun\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131159,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131157\/revisions\/131159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}