Ebola closure cuts off a lifeline between DRC’s Goma and Rwanda

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Between the border posts linking Goma and the Rwandan town of Gisenyi, at Petite Barrière, stands a wooden hut that was once crowded with traders and travellers moving back and forth each day.

Now it stands empty.

A few dozen metres away, a sentry box painted in the colours of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) overlooks a b...