00:00Muslims in the Democratic Republic of Congo observed the Eid al-Ather celebrations,
00:06despite the surging number of Ebola cases.
00:10Muslims are a minority in the country, but higher populations of Muslims are mostly in the eastern part of the
00:15country.
00:16Zule Abdullah said she was grateful to be able to gather to pray on Wednesday, as is tradition on the
00:23Eid holidays.
00:24First of all, we are grateful to have reached this day of prayer.
00:27We didn't know we would be gathering to pray because of this terrible disease.
00:32People are dying, but we thank God for his strength that has allowed us to reach this day of prayer
00:36because this epidemic is serious.
00:38People are finding it difficult to pray.
00:41The virus spread for weeks undetected as authorities were testing for the more common Zaire Ebola virus.
00:47But this outbreak is caused by the Bodebogia virus, for which there is no vaccine and no treatment for the
00:53complicating ethos to contain it.
00:55Ali Muusufu is an imam under the Eturi representative of the Islamic community in the Congo, also known as Komiko.
01:02To be honest, today Eid is not being celebrated as usual because every celebration is a joy for Muslims.
01:07They gather in one place to pray and visit each other.
01:11But given the Ebola outbreak, there is a decrease in the excitement of the celebrations.
01:14The outbreak is occurring mostly in Eturi province, home to the three hardest-hit town of Bonia, Rwampara and Mungbalu.
01:22The region has four years seen attacks by dozens of separate rebels and militant groups, some of them with links
01:28to foreign countries.
01:29But Godcco and Mungbalu
01:31Letting Punjab
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