UN confirms re-opening of Rwandan border with Democratic Republic of Congo

In a presentation transmitted via video directly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations Ebola Emergency Response Coordinator confirmed that the African country’s border with Rwanda is now open.

Previously, Rwandan authorities closed the border with the Ebola-hit Congolese city of Goma on Thursday for everyone other than Congolese citizens leaving Rwanda, as a third case was confirmed in Goma.

The daughter of an Ebola patient in the east Congo city has contracted the virus, Congolese officials confirmed, the third case in a metropolis of at least one million people that neighbors Rwanda.