Congo could face a triple emergency as authorities deal with lingering cases of Ebola, a surge in coronavirus and instability that has racked the country for more than a decade
Modeste Bakwanamaha was expecting to spend Easter Sunday leading the Democratic Republic of Congo in celebration as he formally declared the end of the world’s second-most-deadly Ebola outbreak.
Instead, the mayor of Beni, the town at the epicenter of a two-year battle against a disease that has left almost 2,300 people dead, spent his day visiting the bodies of the first new Ebola victims in almost two months at a clinic that has already been repurposed for fighting a new enemy: coronavirus.
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