The Ebola outbreak in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which began in August 2018, is over, the WHO says in a tweet quoting a government minister.
The centre of the outbreak was in Ituri province but there were also cases in North and South Kivu.
There is however a fresh Ebola outbreak - the 11th in the country's history - in the west of the country.
A case in the city of Mbandaka was announced on 1 June.
For an outbreak to be declared over, there has to be a 42-day period since the last positive case was tested negative and discharged from hospital.
In the 23-month outbreak in the north-east of the country, 3,463 people got the disease and 2,280 died.
It was the second-most deadly Ebola outbreak in history, after the one which hit West Africa in 2014-16.
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