DR Congo Ebola response effort suspended in Beni after clashes: ministry

Beni (DR Congo) (AFP) – Efforts to fight an Ebola outbreak in DR Congo’s restive eastern Beni region were suspended Saturday after clashes just a “few metres” from the local emergency centre and the hotels of several response teams, the health ministry said.

On Friday night, UN peacekeepers from the MONUSCO peacekeeping force repelled an offensive by the armed militia group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Beni’s northern Boikene neighbourhood, the ministry said in a statement.