New York, April 20 -- The UN has condemned an attack on an Ebola treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday, which led to the death of a doctor working for the World Health Organization (WHO), and injured two others.
Doctor Valery Mouzoko Kiboung was an epidemiologist deployed by WHO in response to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus disease that began last August, in the eastern North Kivu area of DRC, which is home to dozens of armed groups. UN chief Antnio Guterres called on the Congolese authorities to spare no effort in identifying and swiftly bringing to justice the perpetrators of the attack at Butembo Hospital, and extended his deepest condolences to the bereaved family, and a swift recovery to the injure...