Via Radio Okapi: Ituri: the population ransacked an Ebola response device in Mambasa. Excerpt from the Google translation:
A group of residents ransacked Friday, February 15, the hand-washing device placed at the barrier of Mambasa-center (Ituri). According to local sources, these protesters would oppose the vaccination of medical staff launched since Thursday at the general reference hospital of Mambasa.
Other sources indicate that some residents are also protesting against the importation of labor into Ebola response activities to the detriment of the local population facing unemployment.
According to the police commander in Mambasa territory, Colonel Prosper Zombo, a mixed police-FARDC team quickly intervened to disperse the protesters.
Police and military fired several shots in the air. A lady, the wife of a soldier, was wounded by a stray bullet in the chest.
Since shortly before noon, the situation is calm again, says the police.
The administrator of the territory convened in the morning a meeting of security committee enlarged compared to this tension which prevailed in his entity.
