Humanitarian workers evacuated after violence erupts at DR Congo’s Ebola treatment center

KINSHASA, July 16– Humanitarian workers involved in the response to the Ebola outbreak were evacuated early Thursday after violence erupted overnight at an Ebola treatment center in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

According to local security and civil society sources, the violence broke out following the death of a pregnant woman at Nyakunde General Hospital, which serves as an Ebola treatment center in Ituri province, the epicenter of the outbreak.