WHO epidemiologist shot during Ebola coordination meeting
Butembo, North Kivu, DR Congo World Health Organization
1 killed
2 wounded
Armed men attacked Butembo University Hospital during a coordination meeting on the Ebola response, killing a WHO epidemiologist and injuring two other people. The outbreak response in North Kivu faced sustained community hostility and repeated attacks on treatment centres. Sixteen people were later sentenced to death over the killing.
The person involved
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Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung
Killed Cameroonian
Deployed to the North Kivu Ebola response. WHO colleagues described him as always ready to go where he was needed most, and he had trained hundreds of medical staff.