Footage circulating online appeared to show parts of Rwampara Hospital engulfed in flames Lilia Sebouai Global Health Security Reporter Lilia Sebouai is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security and Foreign desks. She covers topics including infectious disease, emerging threats, humanitarian crises and conflict. See more Published 21 May 2026 7:15pm BST Protesters have stormed an Ebola treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo to retrieve the body of a relative, according to local media reports. Footage circulating online appeared to show parts of Rwampara Hospital engulfed in flames, with plumes of smoke rising above the facility. Gunshots can be heard in the background. “Angry protesters are setting fire to the tents housing Ebola patients because they want to forcibly retrieve the bodies,” said one man, his face mask pulled below his mouth.…