A Trustworthy Public Dashboard, Not Another Rumour Mill
Ebola Tracker is a public, continuously-updated Ebola outbreak
dashboard for Africa, built and operated by African Script. Every figure it
publishes is pulled from official sources - the World Health Organization, Africa
CDC, national ministries of health, and OCHA's humanitarian data exchange - and
passed through a human verification step before it ever reaches the public site.
Outbreak information online is usually one of two things: an official bulletin
buried in a PDF nobody reads in time, or a headline repeated across news outlets
with no figure behind it at all. Ebola Tracker is built to close that gap - fast,
continuously updated, sourced, and verified, in both English and Kiswahili.
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// African Countries Tracked
WHO + CDC
// Official Sources Only
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// Verified, Not Auto-Published
EN / SW
// English & Kiswahili
Platform Overview
Every public figure on Ebola Tracker has travelled
through the same pipeline: pulled from a named source, checked by a person, and
only then published.
Figures aren't typed in by hand from a bulletin - they're pulled automatically from the sources that actually publish them.
- WHO Disease Outbreak News and WHO AFRO regional updates
- Africa CDC situation updates
- National ministries of health (Kenya live today)
- OCHA's Humanitarian Data Exchange for case-series data
- 19 news publishers' feeds, shown as unverified headlines only - never counted as a figure
Not every source is trusted equally, and nothing reaches the public site without a trail back to where it came from.
- WHO and OCHA figures are the highest-trust tier; ministry and Africa CDC updates are queued for review before publishing
- A second reviewer is required before a figure is confirmed, whenever more than one reviewer is available
- A published figure is corrected by retraction, not silent deletion - the record of what was said, and when, stays intact
- A full audit log of every review decision
Case figures only mean something with geography attached to them.
- A dedicated dashboard per tracked country - suspected, probable, confirmed, deaths and recovered, broken out by outbreak
- An interactive 3D globe for a continent-level view
- Sub-national choropleth maps (county, province, district) built from official boundary data
- Points-of-entry overlays - airports, ports, border posts - for regional risk context
An outbreak is tracked as its own record, not just a rising number.
- Outbreak records by species, status (suspected / imported / active / over) and epicentre
- Neighbouring-country "regional watch" context, based on travel links and borders
- Leveled public alerts - info, watch, warning, critical - published in English and Kiswahili with an expiry date
A public health dashboard that falls over during a real outbreak is worse than useless.
- The public site never queries the live database directly - every dashboard is served from a pre-built snapshot, built for traffic spikes
- Automated monitoring emails reviewers when a source fails, data goes stale, or reviews are piling up
- Two-factor authentication required for every admin and reviewer account
Why Ebola Tracker
Outbreak information moves fast and gets repeated
without a source. Ebola Tracker is built to be the opposite of that.
01 Verified, Not Just Aggregated
Every published figure has passed a human review step - this isn't a raw feed of whatever a source happened to say.
02 Sourced, Always
Every figure traces back to a named source - WHO, Africa CDC, a ministry of health, or OCHA - never an unattributed number.
03 Built for Real Traffic
Public dashboards are served from pre-built snapshots, so a spike in public interest during an active outbreak doesn't take the site down.
04 Bilingual From the Start
English and Kiswahili, not a bolted-on translation plugin.
05 Pan-African Coverage
Kenya, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Ethiopia, Zambia and the Central African Republic, tracked today.
06 Built by African Script
Developed and operated by a Kenyan team - the same team behind African Script's other platforms.
Full Module List
- Multi-Source Automated Data Ingestion (WHO, Africa CDC, Ministries of Health, OCHA/HDX)
- Tiered Source Trust & Human Review Pipeline
- Second-Reviewer Confirmation Rule
- Retraction & Full Audit Log
- Per-Country Case Dashboards (Suspected / Probable / Confirmed / Deaths / Recovered)
- Interactive 3D Globe & Sub-National Choropleth Maps
- Points-of-Entry Risk Overlays
- Outbreak Records by Species, Status & Epicentre
- Regional Watch (Neighbouring-Country Context)
- Bilingual Public Alerts (English / Kiswahili)
- Static Snapshot Publishing for High-Traffic Resilience
- Automated Source & Freshness Monitoring
- Two-Factor Authentication for Admin & Reviewer Accounts
Frequently Asked Questions
The World Health Organization's Disease Outbreak News and AFRO updates, Africa CDC, national ministries of health, and OCHA's Humanitarian Data Exchange. News coverage is also monitored, but shown only as unverified headlines - never counted as a figure.
It depends on the source's trust tier. The highest-trust sources (WHO, OCHA) can publish provisionally under strict rules; everything else is queued for a human reviewer, and a second reviewer confirms it where more than one is available.
No. Ebola Tracker publishes aggregate public case figures only - it is not a clinical case-management system, and it does not hold individual patient or contact records.
Yes. Ebola Tracker is a free public dashboard - there's no login or subscription required to view it.
Kenya, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Ethiopia, Zambia and the Central African Republic today, with coverage growing over time.
English and Kiswahili throughout, including public alerts.
Ebola Tracker is one of African Script's platforms. See our Musyi Hotel Management System, Beba Logistics Tracking System, or the full Ustadi ERP overview.
