We are similar. With wonderful people once to make the dream so special. For all true for. More than for. More on. This is africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes he is the Ebola Outbreak in congo is surging out of control the World Health Organization has taught me suspended its Vaccination Campaign as Violent Attacks on Treatment Centers forced into others to wind down their services what does this mean for the nation off the deadly virus. Sudans defiant demonstrations people from across the country are pouring into the capital hard soon to keep the pressure on the military council to
put a civilian government in place will hear from one of the prisoners just. Im kristie want to welcome to news africa. And a Bona Outbreak in Eastern Congo is said to be surging of control as attacks on Treatment Sanchez stalled if thats to treat those infected and to end the spread of the virus attacks in north kivu province have forced the World Health Organization to suspend its Vaccination Program and one of the hotspots off the outbreak since being declared last august the outbreak has more than One Thousand Three Hundred confirmed and probable cases including Eight Hundred And Fifty Five deaths and the new number of causes or other cases has risen alarmingly in recent weeks. Workers prepare the body of
a child for burial another victim of this current outbreak of the disease the young are especially vulnerable two out of three children who contract die but about half of adults survive here of this Treatment Center in bay ne in Eastern Congo some of the survivors are working to treat new patients motivated by what theyve been through themselves. My uncle became sick first and my parents went to look after him he died and then they got sick and died in the end we lost ten people four of us survived. Fighting ever there is dangerous enough strict rules need to be followed workers need to be massed uncovered the outfits are hot and cumbersome especially in the stifling Tropical Temperatures of Eastern Congo. And then theres the violence last friday attackers shot and killed an epidemiologist from cameroon working at a hospital in the city of bhutan go in nearby carts were attackers armed with
machetes then tried to burn down an absolute Treatment Center Security Personnel guarding the site shot dead one of the attackers and arrested another five the attacks on eveleigh Treatment Centers are further complicating the fight against the Outbreak Distrust of Health Workers and superstition is also complicating medical efforts to contain the disease president if used to shoot katie toward a Treatment Center and appealed for people to accept the doctors and except the disease is real. I ask you my countrymen my fathers my Little Brothers listen and cooperate with the medical Response Teams that are working tirelessly here to read a kate this decease if you do so this disease will not spread anywhere anymore and we will contain it and get rid of it completely. So far invocations like that have not had the desired results the battle against this outbreak of eveleigh hangs in
the balance. Duffs admirably paid from Doctors Without Borders has recently been in Eastern Congo she joins us now from paris where she is involved in coordinating efforts on the ground welcome said. Pace so were learning that Health Workers are being forced to suspend some of their operations on the ground the latest being the death oh today what does this mean for this latest outbreak of ebola which is already one of the deadliest weve seen. May certainly it means that its going to be more difficult for patients to get care that they need. And certainly it means that theres of course the risk. Spread even further though i think its quite important to mention or before we focus on that on the fact that Health Workers have been affected and that the well the response has been infected which is certainly important that i think its important to remember that this is an area thats very routinely affected by them and that these attacks on people that enters
while unfortunate and while there are only likely to have a strong response. Is just another example of the level of violence thats unfortunately endemic to this region and has been over some time right and then we have to say the Treatment Centers are being targeted in attacks one would wonder why. I think those reasons are complex and i dont think its necessarily possible to say for sure why the Treatment Centers are being impacted or why the people respond as a as an entity is being is being is being targeted but i do think that it reflects a level of wants and an institutional mistrust on behalf of the population an area that unfortunately for a long time has not had a lot of confidence in government institutions which could certainly be contributing to this. The Health Department and how the actors can be construed as
belonging to that and also to certainly remember that its an area that prone to political manipulations. For various Different Reasons and certainly of all the response might be the latest point ok and you have just been on the ground here youve recently returned some of your colleagues are still there what is the situation like what is it like being on the ground in these areas during the slick. I mean its its tense for sure theres a level of concern certainly on have our teams. To you know whether or not theyre going to remain safe and for how long and what other things can potentially be done in order to ensure that they do so that the that they remain so of oh certainly its quite a lot of. Its emphasized the importance. In maintaining contact
with or. All of the sectors of the community that weve been able to to speak to and to to have an even closer to the ground in order to make sure that our activities are able to continue right your organization has today called on the wall to rethink their response to able to what is meant by that. I think it means that its time to look at how can we do what were doing in a better way how can the Motor Response respond to not only different people up in this area but how can this become a mechanism by which the Health System overall can perhaps be left stronger as opposed to weaker or when the epidemic does eventually end all right thats a paper loss the other the challenge we have been talking about you know attacks on Treatment Sanchez and the for suspension of some services on the ground and the
fact that the says one of the deadliest outbreaks but its not all doom and gloom particularly when you compare this case this outbreak to to the previous that we saw in west africa a few years ago. Certainly yeah i mean yes this is the second biggest epidemic thats been recorded but youre absolutely correct its nowhere near the amplitude that we saw i want to have a graph which should definitely be seen as a as a good thing. That its not yet completely completely out of control and i think that theres. A willingness and in determination on behalf of all of the actors who are involved in the response that this is a moment to to rethink how our responding and to do so but to do so. You know better and more comprehensive way. Ok that was structured and repaid from Doctors Without Borders so i want to bring this to you briefly south african
authorities are responding to a Flood Emergency which has killed more than fifty people in the southern and eastern parts of the country more than a thousand people have been displaced now heavy rains have triggered flooding and mudslides in coastal areas of the province i was in thats how thats undermined buildings causing them to collapse on their inhabitants of the people have been swept away by water major roads in and out of the Port City Of Durban have also been closed. An extraordinary access to sudan way of Protest Leaders have called for a Million People to march to demand the countrys ruling military and of a power to a civilian administration the Sudanese Army ended the thirty year rule of president bashir two weeks ago after months of protests but the opposition is demanding the complete removal of the old regime tens of thousands of people have arrived by train in the capital hard to him to lend their support to the demonstrators camped
outside the Military Headquarters in the capital Opposition Leaders have suspended talks with the army over every fusil to hand over power immediately. The opposition are now also threatening a strike to underline their demonstrative is. Karim met up with an Opposition Leader in the capital to what do you want today from the military through this new consul in sudan. We want. To hear and every day. A swift and immediate transfer of. Powers of political. Decision making process to see really an administration that we are going to compose for all. Forces that are submitting kinked this is this is what we want to get to happen if you want this you as
a civilian concert you are not united today when we talk to the people in the street who are you are presenting today we. Wonder if this isnt united because we have a long history of we have been together and we have signed together one. Document. For freedom might change. All parties to that. Declaration. To the litter and saw what. Being there is indeed in that declaration so there is no we are united hundred percent if you say you are united what would happen if the military council dont hand over the power to a civilian council what will you do we are going to continue. Our struggle to gain power for the people in this in this. For this end we are going of course to set up our. Struggle including. Declaration of political. Strike. And civil. Disobedience what does that mean exactly what would you do me or people to stop with going to stop being taxes being. The. War was that see if the government went with this happen this is soon as we get convinced that. We reached a deadlock. Ended lets do a fix just. As soon as we get convinced. That thank you so much
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