Iran's foreign minister Araghchi said relations with Iraq are very close.

On the 27th local time, WHO's Africa regional office and the Africa CDC opened a continental Ebola emergency command centre at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, to coordinate and strengthen regional prevention and response. The centre will operate under "one plan, one team, one budget and one monitoring and evaluation framework" to provide unified coordination, minimise duplication, strengthen accountability and accelerate implementation of control measures in affected and high‑risk countries.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said any breach of the ceasefire would violate the Islamabad agreement and completely halt all ongoing processes.