Uganda Closed Its DRC Border Six Weeks Ago. All Confirmed Ebola Cases Still Appeared in Kampala. Communities That Lost Livelihoods Have Received Nothing

Uganda Closed Its DRC Border Six Weeks Ago. All Confirmed Ebola Cases Still Appeared in Kampala. Communities That Lost Livelihoods Have Received Nothing

Uganda’s decision to close its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to stop Ebola is exposing how governments can impose enormous economic costs without preventing the disease from reaching the communities they were trying to protect. Development Diaries reports that the East African country closed its land border with the DRC on 27 May and imposed a mandatory 21-day isolation for anyone entering from across the border as autho…