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On Sunday, the Democratic Republic of Congo was supposed to declare itself free of Ebola. The outbreak of the virus has killed more than 2,000 people since August 2018 and Sunday would have marked the official point when no cases of the disease had been reported for 7 weeks.

But then on Friday the news nobody wanted to hear - a man had died of Ebola in the city of Beni. He was an electrician. Then more bad news over the weekend as an 11-year-girl also died.

Health workers who tried to cleanse the electrician's house were pelted with stones by his neighbours. Frank Abeille, the Ebola co-ordinator for UNICEF in DR Congo, says he understands their frustration.

(Photo: A United Nations peacekeeper has his shoes cleaned with a chlorine solution before leaving an Ebola treatment centre in Mangina, North Kivu province. Credit: AFP)