evidence: The mpox outbreak puts pressure on the eastern region already struggling with a lack of medicines and an ongoing armed rebellion. [...] Two days prior, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued its highest alert level for mpox after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the viral disease previously known as monkeypox a continental emergency. [...] Originally named "monkeypox" when it was first identified in monkeys in 1958, the name of the disease was updated to "mpox" in 2022 to reduce stigma.