this is steve's every news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes b. is the ebola outbreak in congo is searching out of control the world health organization has taught me suspended its vaccination campaign as violent attacks on treatment centers force n.g.o.s to wind down these services what does this mean for the name off the deadly virus. and sudan's defiant demonstrations people from across the country are pouring into the capital hot soon to keep the pressure on the military council to put a civilian government in place from one of the pros just. i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa today in an ebola outbreak in eastern congo is said to be surging on trolling as attacks on treatment center is stored if

it's to treat those and fix it 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 a new number of causes or other cases has risen longevity in recent weeks workers prepare the body of a child for burial i know the victim of this current outbreak of the disease the young are especially vulnerable to just three children who contract regular guy. but about half of adults survive here at this treatment center in bay ne in eastern congo some of the survivors are working to treat new patients motivated by what they've 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 there's 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 the 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 present feaster she katie toured the

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. duff's the admiral 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 city. so we're learning that health workers are being forced to suspend some of their operations on the ground the latest being the dead oh today what does this mean for the spaces outbreak of ebola which is already one

of the deadliest we've seen. may certainly it means that it's going to be more difficult for patients to get care that they need. and certainly it means that there's of course the risk. spread even further though i think it's quite important to mention no before we focus on that on the fact that health workers have been affected and that the well the response has been affected which is certainly important that i think it's important to remember that this is an area that's very very routinely affected by by then and that these attacks only will it enters while unfortunate and while there are only likely to have a strong response. is just another example of the level of violence that's unfortunately endemic to this region and has been over some time right and then we had to send the treatment centers are being targeted in attacks one would wonder why. i think the reason they're complex and i don't think it's

necessarily possible to say for sure why the treatment centers are being affected or why the well the response as as an entity is being is being is being targeted but i do think that it reflects a level of wants and the 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. that the health department and health actors can be construed as belonging to that and also to certainly remember that it's an area that prone to political manipulations. for various different reasons and certainly of all the response might be the latest point ok you've just been on the ground you've 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 it's it's. tends to for sure there's a level of concern certainly young to have our teams. who you know whether or not they're going to remain safe and for how long and whatever things can become to be done in order to ensure that they do so in the that they remain so of certainly it's quite a lot of. it emphasized the importance. in maintaining contact with. all the sections of the community that we've been able 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 at your organization has today called on the wall to rethink their response to what is meant by that. i think it means that it's

time to look at how can we do what we're doing in a better way how can you go response responds 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 that's a fatal aussie i leave a challenge we have been talking about you know tests on treatment sanchez and the four suspension of some services on the ground and the fact that the says one of the deadliest outbreaks in the but it's not all doom and gloom particularly when you compare this outbreak to to the previous eleven that we saw in west africa a few years ago. certainly yeah i mean yes this is the second biggest epidemic that's been recorded but you're absolutely correct it's nowhere near the amplitude that we saw i watched out program which i'm definitely be seen

as a as a good thing. that it's not yet completely completely out of control and i think that there's. 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 you know better and more comprehensive way ok that was stocks 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 the tile that's undermined buildings causing them to collapse on their inhabitants are the people have been swept away by water and major roads in and out of the port city of durban have also

been closed. an extraordinary access to sudan where protest leaders have called for a million people to march to demand the country's ruling military hand over power to a civilian administration the sudanese army ended the thirty year rule of president omar 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 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 demonstrably is. karim met up with an opposition leader in the capital to what do you want today from the military transitional council in

sudan. we want. to do a review. of the media. or for. forwards of political. decision making process to see really a decision that we are going to compose for all. forces. didn't. this is this is what we want to dig 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 your presenting today we. wonder if they sent united because we have a long history of we have been together and we have signed together one. document which we call. for freedom might change. all parties to that.

declaration. to the letter and sort of. being that is interesting that declaration so there is no love we are united under this and if you say you are united what would happen if the military council don't hand over the power to a civilian council what will you do we are going to continue. our struggle to get important for the people in this and in this. i mean for this end we are going of course to set up. the struggle including. declaration of political. strike. and civil. disobedience what does that mean exactly what would you do means

or be able to stop we're going to stop being taxes being. the. walls that see if the government went with this happen this is soon as we get convinced that. reached a deadlock. in. let's do a fix just. as we get convinced. that thank you so much all right that was. speaking to one of the pages three days in sudan and that is it for now from africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page interact day i'm on twitter at. the next time i think.

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