Rebel attacks in eastern DRC kill 30 people and hamper Ebola response

Key points

• Rebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have left more than 30 people dead over the past few days, complicating the response to the disease.
• At least 10 people were massacred in raids on three villages around the city of Beni, in North Kivu, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
• The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia affiliated to Islamic State, has been blamed for the attacks on the villages of Matété, Mamuli and Kitoho in eastern DRC.
• Isaac Kavalami, a community leader from the region, said: “We have provisionally recorded around 10 deaths.
• Motorcycles and homes were set alight by the ADF rebels.