DR Congo capital wary of Ebola nightmare

Yves Matwa, an Ebola outbreak response worker, tells passengers on Congo river ferries to brace for checks before they can enter the DR Congo capital Kinshasa

MALUKU (DR CONGO) - The Ebola virus has spread across Democratic Republic of Congo at a frightening speed and one of the authorities' biggest fears is that it reaches the teeming capital of Kinshasa.

That is why Yves Matwa walks up and down the jetty at the river port of Bende-Bende in Maluku, 70 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of Kinshasa, shouting through a loud-hailer at people arriving on ferries from afflicted zones.