Steve Ahuka, national coordinator of the fight against Ebola, confirmed that a local worker in Lwemba had been killed. A journalist at Radio Lwemba, the local radio station where Mahamba worked, also confirmed the details. “Our colleague Papy Mumbere Mahamba was killed at his home by unknown attackers” who stabbed him to death, Jacques Kamwina told reporters . The Observatory for Press Freedom in Africa, based in the DR Congo, called on the Ituri authorities to conduct a “serious investigation” into the killing. The DR Congo in August last year declared an Ebola epidemic in the conflict-wracked eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri, bordering Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

Source: Taipei Times November 04, 2019 16:06 UTC