Crowd Sets Ebola Treatment Center Ablaze in Congo Amid Dispute Over Dead Body

A security guard runs in front of an Ebola treatment center in flames in Rwampara, Congo, on May 21, 2026. Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne/AP PhotoPeople set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on May 21 after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, witnesses and police said.“The police intervened to try to calm the situation, but unfortunately they were unsuccessful,” Alexis Burata, a local student who said he was in the area, told The Associated Press. “The young people ended up setting fire to the center. That’s the situation.”