Democratic Republic of Congo announced the end of an almost six-month Ebola outbreak in the west of the country on Wednesday.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

The death toll from the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed over 2,000.

A second person has died of Ebola in Goma, a city of two million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Ebola outbreak in Congo and neighbouring countries is a public health emergency of international concern, the WHO declared.

The United States, Britain and Germany had all donated generously, but other members of the G7 group of countries needed to do more, said British minister Rory Stewart.

Djaffar Al Katanty, a camera operator from the Democratic Republic of Congo, has only been able to watch as his hometown has become the epicentre of the world's second worst recorded outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. He describes the scene as watching people die "day after day."

The announcement comes after New Brunswick, the original host of the games, pulled the plug on the event amid the event's skyrocketing costs.

Uganda has confirmed a case of Ebola brought over from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Attempts to end the second worst Ebola outbreak on record are being hampered by "political games" and distrust of outsiders in two towns in Democratic Republic of Congo, a senior World Health Organization official said on Monday.