There was a very bizarre and unusual situation going on in Kivu, which was located in eastern Congo. Government soldiers, rebels, and foreigners who had come to loot resources were lying side by side in the temporary treatment centers: government soldiers who had gotten Ebola after coming here to subdue the rebels, rebels who had gotten Ebola while forming an organization to carry out a terrorist attack, and smugglers from neighboring countries who collapsed due to Ebola before getting home. 0

Rosaline was right when she said Ebola was fair and equal. Ideologies and greed were weakened in the face of death. People who were in excruciating pain and coughing up blood due to Ebola showed up to the government’s temporary treatment centers one by one.0

“We surrender… Please help us…”0

“I’m from Uganda… I’m sorry. Help me…”0

The news of cured patients and free treatment spread quickly here. The virus of death that had infected and defeated so many people had ironically created a ceasefire in this region. Unamu, a child soldier from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, found this unfamiliar peace a little baffling. He didn’t have to walk through the jungle in fear of being shot or stepping on landmines anymore. He thought that he would be executed...2