1. Mining controls disrupt Kolwezi

Authorities have held copper and cobalt trucks for document checks at Musompo. Artisanal miners protesting inspections, closed buying counters and delays in opening alternative mining areas disrupted several Kolwezi neighborhoods on October 19.

2. Bunia follows up with only a quarter of identified Ebola contacts

Ebola teams followed up with 24.9 percent of people identified as contacts in Bunia on October 16. Most known potential exposures went without the daily checks used to detect new infections quickly.

3. Thousands from Kigonze camp lack shelter

More than 4,000 former residents of Bunia’s closed Kigonze displacement site lack adequate shelter. The camp held nearly 19,000 people, and humanitarian workers were still tracing where roughly 14,000 other former residents had gone.

4. Kikwit public hospitals stop operating

Public hospitals in Kikwit, Kwilu province, have stopped operating during the health-worker strike, interrupting care for patients.

5. Ebola funding faces new scrutiny

An anticorruption organization has requested an audit of $50 million in government Ebola funding. Separately, lawmakers in Haut-Uélé are disputing the distribution and use of their share of $350,000 assigned to caucuses in three affected provinces for awareness work.