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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kamara Sami.

And we begin with the latest on the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa

and reports of another suspected arson attack on an Ebola

treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It follows the events earlier in the week

when an angry crowd set fire to a hospital near the city of Bunya, the epicentre of the current

outbreak, after the family and friends of a man suspected of having died from the virus were prevented

from taking his body away for burial.

People are often infected with Ebola during preparations for funerals.

There have been no reports of injuries in this current suspected attack.

Meanwhile, officials in neighbouring Uganda have confirmed another three cases of the current rare strain of the disease,

including two people who had been in contact with the first confirmed patient.

177 people are now thought to have died in the outbreak,

which has spread to areas bordering Rwanda, controlled by the M23 Rebel Group.

Therese Icahequambo Wagner is foreign minister of the DRC.

When she spoke to the BBC on Friday, she called for the M23 rebels and the Rwandan army

to allow medical staff and aid into the region of Eastern DRC under their control.

I think what is important here is first of all to reiterate that these areas are occupied, yes, by the M23, but also by the Rwandan army.

The second point is, indeed, the situation requires urgent action that goes well beyond the capacities of the M23 and of the Rwandan government.

I want to flag also that in this case, the city of

Goma, for example, has seen the border to Rwanda being closed by Rwandan authorities. So this is

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