Rwanda temporarily closes border crossings with Congo Goma.

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17/05/2026
A new round of Ebola outbreak has recently occurred in the Congo. Xinhua News Agency journalists witnessed on the 17th in the provincial capital of Goma in North Kivu Province, the border crossing between Goma and Rwanda was temporarily closed that day. The border crossing between Goma in eastern Congo and Gisenyi in western Rwanda is an important land border passage between Congo and Rwanda. On the morning of the 17th, journalists on the scene saw that both border crossings connecting these two cities had been suspended.