Ongoing Ebola activity centers on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s fast-expanding Bundibugyo outbreak, already the country’s largest with over 7,000 confirmed cases across seven provinces and thousands of deaths. Cross-border transmission reached Uganda earlier this year before authorities declared it over after 42 days without new cases, while one imported case appeared in France. Insecurity, population movement, health-worker strikes, and gaps in contact tracing continue fueling spread, keeping the WHO emergency in force. Traders watch for new detections in neighboring nations like South Sudan or the Central African Republic, alongside vaccination rollout and response scaling that could limit or extend the year’s geographic footprint before December.