DR Congo Ebola Outbreak Response Being Hampered By Armed Attacks On Civilians Says UN

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread amid repeated and ongoing deadly attacks on civilians and frontline health workers by armed groups that are obstructing efforts to stop transmission, UN responders said on Friday. In an update, the UN Senior Ebola Response Coordinator, Julien Harneis, stressed that more people are being killed by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) fighters than by Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in recent days. And yet attacks on “tens of villages” across the south of Ituri and North Kivu provinces go “unnoticed”, Mr. Harneis maintained.

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