The Ebola crisis is worsening in Central Africa. Ugandan authorities ordered this Wednesday to close the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo "with immediate effect" due to the increase in cases of a rare variant of the virus in the neighboring country. The first infections have also begun to appear in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, located between 400 and 500 kilometers from the initial focus of the outbreak.

The Ebola outbreak detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been collapsing hospitals in the northeast of the country for days. With 177 suspected deaths and 750 cases also under scrutiny, in addition to currently undetermined but seemingly high detection rates, it is positioning itself as the third most serious outbreak in the history of this virus, and for now it is far from being controlled. The variant, named Bundibugyo, had only been detected on two occasions, in 2007 and 2012, and although it is not clear if it is more contagious than others, the conditions in which the outbreak has occurred lead to fears that the figures for cases and deaths will escalate in the coming days and that it will be complicated to stop the spread of the virus.

Barça has been reported to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office due to the "sponsorship signed in mid-2025 with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the document registered on May 5, which ARA has accessed, it is specified that the complaint is directed against the club, against "the [Barça] directors responsible for the litigious contract" and against the Central African country's Minister of Sports, Didier Budimbu Ntubuanga. It is requested that they be investigated for alleged crimes of money laundering, prevarication, and embezzlement of public funds. The procedure arises from an initiative by Congolese citizens residing in Spain and is coordinated with another action that was launched regarding the sponsorship that the Congo itself signed with Monaco. This complaint has been investigated by the Principality's justice system since March 6, after the French system declared itself incompetent in the first instance.

Johan Grimonprez has woven a vibrant historical documentary about the coup d'état suffered by Patrice Lumumba's government in the Republic of Congo, with the Cold War in the background. The author measures the threads that linked the dreams of fraternity and federation in postcolonial (or should we say neocolonial?) Africa with the political struggles and Afro-American cultural expressions committed to civil rights in the United States, where laws still discriminated against the black population. And, in passing, he livens up the exercise of colonial memory with pieces by Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

"I am no longer in Goma since my employment. I am ready to spend some time away from my family and loved ones," explains Steward Muhindo, a Congolese researcher, to ARA. The troops of the M23, the guerrilla group that has been operating in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2012, They occupied Goma at the end of JanuaryThis is a key moment in their latest campaign against the Congolese government, which has been underway since March 2022 and has allowed them to consolidate their dominance of territories rich in gold, coltan and other natural resources.