Prosper Eri Ngora

Discovering this outbreak happening in our area isn't easy at all.

But for being journalists, we are citizens that are also affected by this outbreak.

So we are also psychologically affected to see our fellow citizens losing their lives due to these outbreaks.

But overall, we are journalists.

We are doing our best to cover such events so that the world can be aware of what's happening on the ground.

And then world leaders can take decisions to save thousands of lives in our region.

This disease or this outbreak doesn't have any vaccine.

That creates anxiety.

They are dealing with the effect of armed conflict.

They are dealing, for example, here in Goma with the closure of Goma International Airport.

They are dealing with the closure of

banks for more than one year and then ebola comes and as we speak rwanda has closed its borders with democratic republic of congo and that really affects thousands of lives because cross-border trade was like a lifeline for many families here in goma some people here in goma

have already taken measures in order to protect themselves.

Some people are washing their hands.

Even some people are buying masks to put on their noises.

People are trying to do their best to make sure that they protect themselves.

And above all, they protect the whole community from getting this dangerous disease, decimating the region, Eastern Congo and Uganda.

There are stigma associated with Ebola.

Some people believe that when you catch Ebola, it is like a curse.

And apart from that, when you have Ebola,