In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nation long acquainted with Ebola's devastation, the seventeenth recorded epidemic has become the worst in the country's history — more than 7,000 confirmed cases, nearly 3,400 lives lost, and a virus now threading through seven provinces, including classrooms where children have just returned from holiday. Authorities speak cautiously of a peak already passed, yet the disease's arrival in schools and a new border province reminds us that hope, in such places, must always be held lightly. This is the story of a people navigating catastrophe with the tools
Congo's Ebola epidemic surpasses 7,000 cases as authorities signal peak may have passed
3,398 deaths recorded among 7,022 confirmed cases, with 1,671 recovered; outbreak affecting schools and vulnerable populations in remote, conflict-affected regions.