The outbreak is thought to have started in early September, and is being caused by the so-called Sudan strain of Ebola. Humanitarian aid is scant, and low state capacity means there is “a lack of proper flood and water management”, said Nhial Tiitmamer, of the Sudd Institute, a Juba-based think tank. Traditional humanitarian financing, the report notes, is “neither appropriate nor sustainable as the primary means of supporting heatwave response”. Meanwhile, the EU is pursuing much less welcoming policies for asylum seekers and migrants from other parts of the world. Experts contacted by the BBC said the begging scheme was exploitative and broke the app’s code of conduct.