It’s calling on the Kinshasa authorities to investigate the attacks and look to providing reparations, medical and psychological help for the victims.

The United Nations Joint Human Rights office says at least 701 people have died between December 2017 and September 2019 in clashes between Hema and Lendu tribes in the DRC.

The Hema have been the major victims of  beheadings, rape and torture.

Attacks are mostly mounted at harvest time in June and are designed to drive the Hema off their land.

More than half a million have been internally displaced and  57 000 have fled into neighboring Uganda.

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Its the  fourth volunteer slain by suspicious locals since the outbreak the deadly hemorrhagic disease that’s killed more than 1200 people since last August.

The health centre was looted and three houses in the North Kivu village of Vusahiro were burned down after the health worker was killed.

Rebels, many crossing the border from Uganda,  and hostility from local residents is making the work of health specialists nearly impossible.

Violence has forced the World Health Organisation to evacuate staff and close a number of treatment and vaccination centers in Ituri and North Kivu where the EBOLA outbreak has become the second worst on the planet. 

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The World Food Program has supplied emergency food aid to more than 86 000 people since the outbreak last August.

The World Health Organization says the tenth outbreak of EBOLA in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the second largest in history.

More than 330 people have died of the haemorrhagic disease afflicting  North Kivu and Ituri provinces and threatening to spread further.

The WHO estimates there are 200 people carrying the virus who have not been treated by medical response teams.

More worrying is the fact that many of the 580 cases have been contracted from unknown sources.

EBOLA is spreading because the outbreak is located in an active conflict zone where militia have been killing civilians for years and show no inclination to work with medical response teams.

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