Giving Compass' Take:

· Due to the ongoing violence happening in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Global Citizen explains that efforts to help address Ebola have been stalled. 

· How can donors assist with the fight to end Ebola? Why is this disease so dangerous? 

· Read more about the Congo's worsening Ebola crisis.

Continued violence in the Congo could cause an existing Ebola epidemic to spread, making the situation even more dangerous.

Allied Democratic Forces rebels killed 15 civilians and abducted a dozen children in a recent attack on Beni, but many more lives may be at risk, as the exchanged fire also suspended crucial Ebola virus-containment efforts, reports the AP.

“It will be very hard to stop the outbreak if this violence continues,” World Health Organization’s emergencies chief Peter Salama told the AP.

Vehicles belonging to aid organizations and the UN mission were pelted with stones, according to UN-backed Radio Okapi. The weekend’s events follow another deadly attack last month in Beni that halted Ebola-containment efforts for days, “complicating work to track suspected contacts of infected people,” according to the report.

In the weeks since, a number of new confirmed Ebola cases have been reported in the city, and the rate of new cases overall has more than doubled, alarming aid groups, noted the AP.

Read the full article about the recent Ebola outbreak in the Congo by Joanna Prisco at Global Citizen.