17 November 2018 - 22H01
Sixteen Ebola WHO staff evacuated amid DR Congo clashes
BENI (DR CONGO) (AFP) -
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday that 16 staff members have been temporarily evacuated from DR Congo's restive eastern city of Beni after a shell hit the building they were staying in.
The incident occurred in the Ebola-plagued region during clashes between UN peacekeepers from the MONUSCO mission and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia on Friday night.
"It was in exchanges of fire that the house was hit by a shell", Michel Yao, WHO's co-ordinator for Ebola response operations in Beni, told AFP.
No one was injured, he said, adding that it was not known whether the shell came from the militia, the UN peacekeepers or the Congolese army backing them.
The 16 WHO workers, out of a total of 191 in Beni, were "traumatised" and left for the eastern city of Goma on Saturday to "de-stress", Yao said.
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Sixteen Ebola WHO staff evacuated amid DR Congo clashes
BENI (DR CONGO) (AFP) -
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday that 16 staff members have been temporarily evacuated from DR Congo's restive eastern city of Beni after a shell hit the building they were staying in.
The incident occurred in the Ebola-plagued region during clashes between UN peacekeepers from the MONUSCO mission and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia on Friday night.
"It was in exchanges of fire that the house was hit by a shell", Michel Yao, WHO's co-ordinator for Ebola response operations in Beni, told AFP.
No one was injured, he said, adding that it was not known whether the shell came from the militia, the UN peacekeepers or the Congolese army backing them.
The 16 WHO workers, out of a total of 191 in Beni, were "traumatised" and left for the eastern city of Goma on Saturday to "de-stress", Yao said.
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