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“Beni: After each of his relatives got Ebola and became sick, Alphonse bin Kitobi Achou Taibo would scramble to get them to the nearest hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but they accused him of taking them there to die and refused to go.”

“Questions raised about how the patient travelled through Uganda It’s also unclear how the patient was able to cross into Uganda, which has closed its border with DR Congo because of the Ebola outbreak.”

“Today in Congo, UN workers are combating the Ebola outbreak.”

“But the DRC is a behemoth of a country; the conflict zones and current Ebola outbreak are closer to East Africa’s tourism hotspots than they are to the province through which we’re travelling.”

“There have been 3761 confirmed deaths across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda and the disease has now reached the South Ubangi province, 1000 kilometres from the outbreak’s epicentre.”