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posted by mrpg on Friday November 23 2018, @07:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the heroes-are-not-bulletproof dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have resumed efforts to fight a major Ebola outbreak in eastern Beni region after a brief suspension following clashes.

"Despite deadly attacks .. Ebola response activities are continuing," the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. 

[...] "Since their arrival in the region, the response teams have faced threats, physical assaults, repeated destruction of their equipment and kidnapping," Oly Ilunga.

On Saturday, a ceremony was held for the peacekeepers who were killed in the previous night's attack.
 
  Fifteen other peacekeepers were killed in an ADF assault on a MONUSCO base in Beni in December 2017.

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 23 2018, @09:38AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 23 2018, @09:38AM (#765488) Journal

    I know, we don't all use the same idioms around the world. To me, a ceremony is kinda like a celebration. The coronation of a monarch, a victory parade or dance or ball, things like that. I think "memorial" would have been a more fitting word than ceremony.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:13PM (#765547)

    Ceremonies are held on Remembrance Day in Canada and they are not celebrations in the sense that you mean. That is the word used for as long as I can remember (pardon the pun).