 You're welcome back to the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's now time for Today in History. And on This Day in History, June the 2nd, 2020, something not so great occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And it was about an Ebola outbreak, the 11th Ebola outbreak in that country. And it reportedly killed five people in the city of Mabandaka in the DRC. Now these five people include a 15 year old girl. You know, we know that the WHO announced earlier that there were six new cases of Ebola in the countries, you know, northwest. And it had a fatality rates of anywhere between 25% and 90% depending on the outbreak of the Ebola. Now the DRC struggled to contain that outbreak of Ebola, which began in 2018 in the eastern part of the country. And about 3,406 cases were reported with 2,243 deaths according to the WHO. There were no cases in the past 24 days in that outbreak, in the past 21 days. And that's because Ebola has an incubation period of about 21 days. You know, so this virus, Ebola, leaves in bats. And it was a new outbreak back then, first of June 2020. And more than 28,000 people were infected in that epidemic. More than 11,000 of them died. But it was in this same history that five deaths were confirmed in the DRC, including that of a teenager. Well, I guess, you know, I can say a good thing that they learned lessons from the last outbreak, the one that eventually, of course, got to Nigeria, where Dr. Stella Dedevo, of course, played a very, very key role in saving Nigeria from experiencing its own very, very terrible Ebola outbreak casualties. So I'm hoping that, of course, they've continued to also improve on their health care in that country. And if for any reason there's another outbreak of Ebola, they are better prepared and they will be able to save lives faster and reduce the possible fatalities from that. I will never be able to wrap my head around how we get infected with things from bats. Viruses from bats makes absolutely no sense. I don't think anybody should still be eating bats or be living anywhere where they are bats. Even if they've been in, there's a tree where there's a lot of bats. But the point is, some of these viruses are just totally unexplainable how they get into our systems and how they become deadly. Yeah, people eat them. So that's one way they get into a system. Well, stop. Yes. People would... Stick to chicken. Chicken never... Chicken never kills anyone. There was a chicken flu. Have you forgotten that? Oh, well, yeah, yeah. There was a chicken flu, so, yeah. Well, we fry it well. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Then... Can I ask how you fry it, can you? Spice it well. With lots of pepper. Fry it well, yes. That's disinformation. Kills every... Don't listen to that. Well, I'm just saying... If there's a flu and you're aware that a certain animal causes it, please stay away. You can be vegan for a minute. We have lots of fresh... Just fry it well. Fresh pumpkin leaves. You can try that. Just fry the chicken really, really well. All right, stop eating chicken head and chicken hands. Those things, you know, might cause viruses. And chicken neck. Oh, my God. It's disgusting. All right. Moving on, let's move into sports now. On this day, the longest-serving FIFA president, Seb Blatter, resigned. And, of course, it was in the wake of corruption allegations that he was facing at this time. If you remember, there was also rumors that there were bribes taken, you know, to move the World Cup to Qatar and some other countries. It was a very embarrassing period for Seb Blatter. But on the 2nd of June, 2015, he, of course, stepped down just a few days after he had been reelected for a fifth four-year term. His resignation came amid rumors that he would soon be under investigation by the United States and Sweden on charges of fraud and corruption. All over the world, there was a lot of football fans who celebrated, of course, as his 17-year term, had over, you know, the period been marred with allegations of misdeeds, bribery, and corruption, exchange of funds here and there. At the time of his resignation, Blatter was not officially charged with any crimes, but he charges alleged to, you know, which eventually came alleged widespread corruption over a 24-year period, including wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering. Officials were also accused of accepting bribes and kickbacks, and even buying and selling of their votes for countries like Russia and Qatar and South Africa to hold the World Cup. It was pretty embarrassing, I'll be honest. He announced four days later that he would, in fact, continue as president, but until a new election could be conducted in 2016, but that wasn't successful. His claims of innocence soon took an even bigger hit. He was accused of making a disloyal payment, if you remember, to Michelle Platini, who was the president of the European Football Association, and was expected to take over from Seb Blatter after his tenure. Eventually, Blatter was suspended from FIFA for eight years for that $2 million payment to Platini, and then, eventually, the sentence was reduced to six years. But that was basically the end of a 17-year, and a very, very long career as a FIFA president for Seb Blatter. A lot of people growing up in our era, in our age, only knew one FIFA president, and that was Seb Blatter. Before, of course, Jenny Infantino stepped in after. Seb Blatter was just the same way with Pope John Paul. If anybody had asked you a couple of years ago, who's FIFA president, they were the most popular in the tops of those countries, until, of course, this scandal came. And then, there was also people who, I say you know so much. There was also people who pointed out, you know. Yeah. Who pointed out that, you know, this is the way that it works in Europe and other countries. And so, if it was in an African country, very likely he would have scaled through these corruption allegations and all of that, but that's just side-talk. On this day, Seb Blatter resigned after being accused of being a corrupt FIFA president. Yes, he argued that he was innocent, you know. Yes, I know that. And you know, Seb Blatter put a message out during the press conference when he announced his resignation saying he would not be a candidate. He's now free from any constraints that elections impose on him. He went on to say that he has fought these changes and the charges before him. He says he will succeed. He cannot do it alone. He, you know, it was just a lot. Expressing his deep concern for FIFA, for spot lovers. You know, just thanking people who have supported him as president of FIFA, but it was on this day in history that he stepped out. Yeah. Sadly also, he couldn't prove otherwise that he wasn't corrupt. So, regardless of how much support that he got, you know, and people who, of course, decided that he was innocent, including his own claims, he still couldn't prove that he was completely innocent. I mean, he lost that position. That's what happened today in history. Second of June 2015, Seb Blatter resigned as FIFA president after corruption allegations. And five people in the DRC lost their lives to the Ebola epidemic in 2020. So, that's it here. Thank you very much for watching and getting updated to the latest in history. We'll take a break here and return to discuss the president's tough talks about insecurity.