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DRC Efforts to Fight Ebola Resume in Beni after Deadly Violence

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

"exec" writes:

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: 3, Insightful) by bradley13 on Friday November 23 2018, @11:56AM (2 children)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Friday November 23 2018, @11:56AM (#765507) Homepage Journal

    "is there a nuclear option?"

    Alternatively, a wall*. I'm not sure if a wall would be there to keep African problems in Africa, or to end the rest of the world's continual interference in African affairs. Probably a bit of both, and either way it might be a good thing...

    *Yes, I know, my geography is that good. So add a sea and air blockade.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday November 23 2018, @12:42PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 23 2018, @12:42PM (#765518) Journal

    Right! Not even fight the symptoms, much less the causes. Waste money on daily basis building and guarding something nobody benefits of, except MIC. That's the American way - $170K of debt per tax payer [usdebtclock.org], 105% of GDP of govt debt [tradingeconomics.com].

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @04:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @04:52PM (#765587)

      the "unwelcomed" southerly caravan that just happened to up-and-go massively will be screened at the border
      and "humanitarly" allowed to seek "a better life" once vetted to be able to increase the GDP by the missing 5%
      so that debt obligations minus GDP equals zero ... until gambled away by people who don't care about twitter
      but have the direct phone number?