According to a report by the News Agency
of Nigeria, NAN, UN agencies have warned
that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC) has spread to
eastern ‘no-go’ zone surrounded by rebels.
The office of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), warned that rebel
violence in eastern DRC was escalating
inside the vast country’s Ebola-hit North Kivu
province, putting millions at risk.
“Thousands of civilians have fled their
burned-out villages, bringing reports of brutal
attacks,’’ Andrej Mahecic, spokesperson for
UNHCR, said in Geneva.
The latest report followed reports that a case
of Ebola infection and one suspected case
have been found in one town in the area,
Oicha, which is surrounded by armed groups.
The disease has killed more than 60 people
and infected dozens more in recent weeks.
Forced displacement in this part of the
country remains massive and it is estimated
that more than a million people are
displaced in North Kivu.
This is the highest concentration of internally
displaced people (IDPs) in the DRC, where
an estimated half a million people have been
forced from their homes this year alone.

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