CAR Tightens Border Checks As DR Congo Ebola Cases Rise

CAR tightens border checks tightened as DR Congo's Ebola cases rise

With the virus in three Congolese regions bordering the country, the authorities have also launched awareness campaigns.

CAR Tightens Border Checks As DR Congo Ebola Cases Rise

With the vast majority of the 10,000 cases recorded to date in Africa's latest outbreak of the deadly virus having been logged in the DRC, officials in the Centrafrican capital Bangui are worried about the disease spilling over the Oubangui river dividing the two nations.

CAR tightens border checks as DR Congo's Ebola cases rise

As the number of Ebola cases in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo hits over 10,000, the Central African Republic has stepped up screening along the river border between the two countries. At the M’Poko Bac pier frontier post, in the south-west of the capital, Bangui, which sits on the banks of the waterway, health workers […]