Emmett Livingstone
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496 appearances
51 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5d ago
Emmett Livingstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The first one was in 1979.
But this latest one was only really noticed when a nurse turned up ill on April 24th and was then buried in a town called Mongualu.
The epidemic was then only announced on May 15th, by which point lots of people had already died.
Three Red Cross volunteers who had handled infected bodies before the outbreak was known about have also since died.
Well, first, maybe a little bit about the epicenter of the outbreak, Mongwalu in a Turi province.
Now, this is a gold mining town where the population is extremely vulnerable.
People live in unsanitary conditions.
It was considered almost a no-go zone until very recently.
It's had no humanitarian missions, and it's hard to reach.
Ituri province is also fractured by extreme violence with multiple armed groups fighting, such as the ADF, which is linked to the Islamic State.
And then more broadly, eastern Congo is facing several overlapping conflicts.
There are four different national armies fighting on the ground at the moment, and the biggest conflict is the one with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, and some Ebola cases have been confirmed in that area too.
Apart from the conflict, one of the largest challenges is distrust in healthcare, which is there for
historical reasons.
These are populations that have been oppressed by one group or another for a very long time.
Then there's also a phenomenal amount of misinformation and conspiracy theories that are circulating.
Gabriela Arenas, the regional operations coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent in Africa, told journalists that their volunteers are going door to door in an effort to combat fear and false rumors.
On top of that, there is an urgent need for PPE and other medical equipment, which is all in short supply.
And of course, all of this is compounded by U.S.
aid cuts, which have definitely had a huge impact on eastern Congo.
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