In the settlement of Apetina Sana, near the city of Beni, fighters of the Uganda-based Allied Democratic Forces hacked civilians – including a  number of children – to death with machetes.

The attacks took place in what has become known as the triangle of death in which more than 200 people have been slaughtered since October.

Regional players are putting increasing pressure on Uganda to stop allowing the rebels to shelter there after incursions.

The attacks are making it nearly impossible to conduct vaccinations against and treatment  for the EBOLA  outbreak in the Beni region.

The World Health Organization fears it might be slipping out of control. 

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Violent attacks on medical workers by rebels and suspicious locals are hampering efforts to curb the hemorrhagic disease that’s killed 1 300 people in the past 10 months.

Health workers fear that their inability to vaccinate people against EBOLA will inevitably lead to a further increase in the planet’s second worst outbreak of the disease.

They believe that the approach to fighting EBOLA in the DRC requires a total reset.

Attacks by the Uganda-based rebel group calling itself the Allied Democratic Forces killed 16 people in Beni this month.

Locals, who doubt the motives of the medical teams, have attacked and killed some of them and destroyed treatment centers.

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