Four things to know:
1. Rebels set fire to a treatment center in the city of Butembo Feb. 27. The attack comes just three days after a fire killed one person at a treatment center in Katwa.
2. Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, oversaw both facilities. The organization’s emergency desk manager, Hugues Robert, called the fire a “deplorable attack” in a Feb. 27 statement.
3. MSF on Feb. 26 suspended care activities at the 70-bed center in Katwa, which will “severely limit essential health services at a time when the region continues to battle an Ebola outbreak,” the group said in a separate statement.
4. As of Feb. 25, Congo health officials reported 872 confirmed and probable Ebola cases linked to the outbreak, along with 548 deaths.
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