After decades of violence, it is hardly surprising that the people of Butembo do not trust the authorities
Kavu Mate was in bed at an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, a scrubby town in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when rebels came to burn it down.
It is just one of a string of attacks on Ebola centres in the DRC’s embattled North Kivu province in the past month. Since Aug 1, the outbreak of the disease has been slowly seeping through the country’s most volatile region, which has grappled with conflict for more than 20 years and is home to some 120 armed groups.
Battling a contagious and deadly virus in a conflict zone is no easy task. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids and corpses can be highly infectious.
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