Sixteen Ebola WHO staff evacuated amid DR Congo clashes

Beni (DR Congo) (AFP) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday that 16 staff members were temporarily evacuated from DR Congo’s restive eastern city of Beni after a shell hit the building they were staying in. 

“It was in exchanges of fire that the house was hit by a shell” on Friday night, Michel Yao, WHO’s co-ordinator for Ebola response operations in Beni, told AFP. No one was injured, he added.

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