Less than a month after it was signed, one of the 14 parties has quit the government central to the deal and another militia has abandoned it.

The peace brokered in Khartoum and inked in Bangui on February 6 was the culmination of eight failed attempts following the 2013 overthrow of President Francois Bozize by the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels.

It obliged President Faustin Archange Touadera to form an inclusive government.

Parties and militia excluded from his administration are urging him to look again at its composition.

They’re insisting on Touadera appointing a prime minister from among their ranks rather than pick a ruling party loyalist.

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This warning from the World Health Organization as three patients escape quarantine in the first city the deadly haemorrhagic disease has reached.

Head of the WHO emergency response Peter Salama says the Ebola outbreak in the DRC is on a epidimiological knife edge.

Seven more cases have been reported and the death toll is 27.

At least 150 people have come into contact with each case and all of these have be be vaccinated.

Salama explains: “There are three separate chains of transmission we’re following. Each one has the potential to expand if not controlled.” 

Three patients escaped from quarantine in Mbandaka the Congo River port upstream from Kinshasa and Brazzaville and downstream from Bangui.

Medicines Sans Frontiers says two of them have been found dead. 

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