Urgent: DR Congo suspends passenger flights to Ebola-hit Bunia


By Shi Yu

KINSHASA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has temporarily suspended all passenger flights to and from Bunia, the capital of the northeastern Ituri Province that is the epicenter of the ongoing Ebola outbreak, the Ministry of Transport said on Saturday.

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