2nd Ebola Treatment Center in Congo Set Alight, 18 Patients Missing

Burial workers shovel soil onto the grave of their late friend, Baraka Ngaju, during his funeral at the cemetery in Mongbwalu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, during the Ebola outbreak on May 20, 2026. Michel Lunanga/Getty ImagesA second Ebola treatment tent in the eastern Congo, the epicenter of the unfolding Ebola outbreak in central Africa, was attacked by angry locals and set on fire on May 23.No one was injured in the fire, but all patients in the facility were forced to flee the flames, leaving 18 suspected Ebola patients unaccounted for, the director of the local town hospital, Dr. Richard Lokudi, said. It was a Doctors Without Borders makeshift clinic in the town of Mongbwalu.