Attacks on Red Cross in DR Congo Making Ebola Fight 'Harder'
The Red Cross said 12 volunteers have been injured and equipment damaged in 11 violent incidents since the outbreak was declared.
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One hundred days after the declaration of an Ebola outbreak in Congo, twelve Red Cross volunteers were injured in eleven violent attacks, the Red Cross reports. Ambulances were destroyed, one even set on fire, and emergency relief supplies were lost.
Organizations involved in the response to the epidemic are evolving in a particularly troubled region, where a myriad of armed groups are active and carry out massacres with impunity.
Several humanitarian organizations express their deep concern after a series of attacks against their teams involved in the fight against the Ebola epidemic.
The Korea Times
Attacks on Red Cross in DR Congo making Ebola fight 'harder'
GENEVA — The Red Cross on Monday voiced alarm after six workers taking part in a desperate bid to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak were injured in attacks last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "Attacks against volunteers and humanitarian personnel are unacceptable," the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement said in a statement, along with the Red Cross societies of the DR Congo and Uganda. The statement said that on August 17…
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