Uganda-based Allied Democratic Forces Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/uganda-based-allied-democratic-forces/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Uganda-based Allied Democratic Forces Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/uganda-based-allied-democratic-forces/ 32 32 Rebel violence stops medical workers fighting EBOLA in eastern DRC https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/rebel-violence-stops-medical-workers-fighting-ebola-in-eastern-drc/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/rebel-violence-stops-medical-workers-fighting-ebola-in-eastern-drc/ New rebel activity in the epicenter of the EBOLA outbreak in DRC is causing a spike in infections by the deafly haemorrhagic disease. 43 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed by Islamist rebels in Beni at the weekend where eight new EBOLA infections were recorded. A month ago the World Health Organization was forced […]

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]]> New rebel activity in the epicenter of the EBOLA outbreak in DRC is causing a spike in infections by the deafly haemorrhagic disease.

43 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed by Islamist rebels in Beni at the weekend where eight new EBOLA infections were recorded.

A month ago the World Health Organization was forced to pull medical personnel out of the Beni region where they having success fighting the 14-month-old EBOLA outbreak.

Since tracing the disease and vaccinating against it has become nearly impossible, there has been an uptick in EBOLA infections.

The violence is the work the of Uganda-based Allied Democratic Forces who have killed nearly 200 people in Eastern DRC since the beginning of last month. 

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