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Kinshasa, Congo – Attempts to get a grip on the Ebola outbreak currently spreading in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been complicated by the restive region’s litany of long-running conflicts.
The Rwanda-backed M23 militia has set up a parallel administration in the swathes of territory it has seized from the Congolese government in the east, already the scene between 2018 and 2020 of the central African country’s deadliest Ebola epidemic to date.
The outbreak’s epicenter is in Ituri province on the border with Uganda and South Sudan in the Congolese northeast, where the violence wrought by various armed groups has led to intense episodes of internal displacement.
