The UN body’s meeting in Geneva tomorrow to determine whether the outbreak constitutes an international emergency.

Community resistance and local violence in the North Kivus are blamed for the inability of health authorities to check the spread of Ebola.

It epicenter has moved 20kms from the Mangina to Beni on the shores of Lake Kivu – hard  up against the Uganda border.

A member of the UN peacekeeping force MONUSCO is among the latest victims.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has pulled their workers back from the worst impacted area for safety reasons

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The four confirmed cases of the deadly hemorrhagic disease comes days after the DRC declared in a end to the Ebola outbreak in the northeast that killed 33 people.

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Without saying exactly when, Congolese authorities say 20 people have already died from hemorrhagic fevers in and around Mangina, a densely populated town about 100 km from the Ugandan border.

A team of 12 experts from Congo’s health ministry will today arrive in the city of Beni about 30kms away.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says supplies and equipment have started moving in.

Efforts to contain the virus could be  complicated by security problems.

At least 1 000 civilians have been killed by armed groups and government soldiers around Beni since 2014, and the wider region of North Kivu holds over 1 million displaced people.

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