Politics, factions and violence: listening to local voices on Ebola

The brief summarises local media and messages circulating via social media outlets including WhatsApp and local radio and press outlets in the Beni and Butembo areas of North Kivu, DRC between February and April 2019. It also captures the growing number of warning messages and written threats transmitted as part of the escalation of violence against Ebola response teams during this period.

The brief was developed by Rachel Sweet (Harvard, University of Notre Dame) for the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform with support from Juliet Bedford and Ingrid Gercama (Anthrologica). For further details on the issues contained in this brief please contact Rachel Sweet (rsweet2@nd.edu) or Juliet Bedford (julietbedford@anthrologica.com).