Key facts
- Africa CDC's Wessam Mankoula said incidents included four armed attacks, 16 assaults on responders and 11 health facilities burned or targeted.
- Mankoula said an attack on Cantine-Aloya in North Kivu by the Allied Democratic Forces killed 66 people, including three health workers.
- More than 1,000 contacts were lost to follow-up and three confirmed Ebola cases remain unaccounted for, Mankoula said.
- WHO experts said at a separate briefing that continuing violence risked reversing progress made over the past six months.
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said insecurity was restricting humanitarian access and making it harder to reach communities quickly.
Attacks on health workers and facilities are increasingly hindering efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa's top public health agency said on November 12, 2026. The outbreak, declared on May 15, has infected 11,114 people and killed 5,433, according to Congolese government data.
Wessam Mankoula of Africa CDC said at a press briefing that the incidents included four armed attacks, 16 assaults on responders and 11 health facilities that were burned or otherwise targeted. He said attacks had become increasingly deadly since late September.
Mankoula said an attack on Cantine-Aloya in North Kivu the previous week by the Allied Democratic Forces, an armed group linked to Islamic State, killed 66 people, including three health workers. More than 1,000 contacts were lost to follow-up and three confirmed Ebola cases remain unaccounted for, he said.
At a separate briefing, World Health Organization experts said continuing violence risked reversing the progress made over the past six months. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that insecurity was one of the greatest obstacles to the Ebola response, restricting humanitarian access, disrupting operations and making it harder to reach communities quickly.