Via Radio Okapi: Ebola response activities temporarily suspended in Biakato and Mambasa. The Google translation:
Ebola response activities are temporarily suspended since Thursday (November 28th) in Biakato and its outskirts in Mambasa territory.
All health personnel and partners of NGOs and UN agencies are evacuated from the Beni area of North Kivu, following the attack on Ebola sites by Mayi-Mayi militiamen whose record was several victims.
Activities have resumed since Friday morning in Biakato after heavy fire that was heard almost all day Thursday, November 28 in this locality. A group of Mayi-Mayi militiamen attacked the local counter-attack team. According to local authorities, two Ebola workers were killed among the victims and others disappeared.
The NGO CODEPEF and civil society say that all services for the management of Ebola cases are not operational. There is only the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières working in the area.
The coordinator of the Ituri response team, Christophe Shako, talks about a temporary suspension pending the definition of new strategies. However, economic and school activities slow down. The presence of the military is reinforced in the area to hunt down the Mai-Mai militia and secure the population living in fear.
