Let Congo, Burundi lay their eggs in our house

Some of the thousands of people gathered in Kinshasa, DR Congo, to attend the rally of Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC) leader Jean-Pierre Bemba n June 23, 2019. PHOTO | AFP

At almost the exact time that DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi wrote to current East African Community chair President Paul Kagame, saying his country wants to the join the regional bloc, it exported something deadly across its border to Uganda.

Recently two Ugandans died of Ebola, after a family of Congolese-Ugandans travelled to DRC to care for an elder suffering from the disease, and returned home with the virus.