Uganda Seals Congo Border as Bundibugyo Ebola Returns 20 Years Later

Cross-border communities face economic disruption as farmers lose access to cheaper Congolese land and Congolese children are cut off from Ugandan schools.

A rope stretched across a bridge over the Lamia River has become the quiet symbol of a familiar crisis returning to a region that never fully escaped it. Uganda has sealed its five-hundred-mile border with Congo after the World Health Organization confirmed a new outbreak of the Bundibugyo Ebola strain — a virus that first bore the name of a Ugandan town in 2007 and has now resurfaced in eastern Congo nearly two decades later. The closure is an act of hard-won institutional memory, a country drawing on its experience with past outbreaks to hold a line — but the line it holds divides not just t

Uganda Seals Congo Border as Bundibugyo Ebola Returns 20 Years Later

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