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Kikwit: the GEDIP citizen movement warns of the dilapidated state of the Ebola victims' cemetery
Published on Fri, 10/01/2025 - 16:31 | Modified on Fri, 10/01/2025 - 18:37
The citizen movement called Groupe d'éveil pour les intéressants de la Population (GEDIP) alerted, Thursday January 9 in Kikwit (Kwilu) on the dilapidated state of the Kazamba cemetery, which was used for the burial of victims of the Ebola virus disease around 1995.
In its statement, this civil society structure claims that rainwater brought the bones of the corpses to the surface.
Tipo Musiketi Inanga, coordinator of this citizen movement, fears the danger to the health of the population of the city of Kikwit.
" The citizen movement Groupe d'éveil pour les Intérêts de la population, GEDIP in acronym, is sounding the alarm to international, national and local public opinion that the city of Kikwit has already been a victim of the Ebola virus which had brought mourning to several families around 1995. To this day, the Kazamba cemetery where these victims were buried is in a state of disrepair and constitutes a danger to the health of the population of Kikwit ," warns Tipo Musiketi.
Indeed, the heavy rains that fell on the city brought to the surface the bones and coffins containing corpses that were buried at the time when the Ebola virus disease was raging in the city of Kikwit, he continues.
GEDIP "implores the local authorities to get ahead of the worst by resorting to a palliative solution in order to block the road to the degradation of this cemetery ."
In 1995, the city of Kikwit was hit by an Ebola epidemic that affected more than 300 people, of whom more than 200 died, according to several sources.
Kikwit: the GEDIP citizen movement warns of the dilapidated state of the Ebola victims' cemetery
Published on Fri, 10/01/2025 - 16:31 | Modified on Fri, 10/01/2025 - 18:37
The citizen movement called Groupe d'éveil pour les intéressants de la Population (GEDIP) alerted, Thursday January 9 in Kikwit (Kwilu) on the dilapidated state of the Kazamba cemetery, which was used for the burial of victims of the Ebola virus disease around 1995.
In its statement, this civil society structure claims that rainwater brought the bones of the corpses to the surface.
Tipo Musiketi Inanga, coordinator of this citizen movement, fears the danger to the health of the population of the city of Kikwit.
" The citizen movement Groupe d'éveil pour les Intérêts de la population, GEDIP in acronym, is sounding the alarm to international, national and local public opinion that the city of Kikwit has already been a victim of the Ebola virus which had brought mourning to several families around 1995. To this day, the Kazamba cemetery where these victims were buried is in a state of disrepair and constitutes a danger to the health of the population of Kikwit ," warns Tipo Musiketi.
Indeed, the heavy rains that fell on the city brought to the surface the bones and coffins containing corpses that were buried at the time when the Ebola virus disease was raging in the city of Kikwit, he continues.
GEDIP "implores the local authorities to get ahead of the worst by resorting to a palliative solution in order to block the road to the degradation of this cemetery ."
In 1995, the city of Kikwit was hit by an Ebola epidemic that affected more than 300 people, of whom more than 200 died, according to several sources.