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Friday, October 01, 2021

The real dangers of Ebola

A 43-year-old woman arrived at an interview for a job with the World Health Organization to raise community awareness about Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was late 2018. The outbreak there was the largest since the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa. 

She said the interviewer told her she could only get the job in exchange for sex. When she refused, she said, the man raped her. 

That's just one of the stories in a newly released report on what's being called a sex-for-jobs scandal as hundreds of aid workers rushed into remote villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
-Mike_C