KINSHASA, May 17, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - A laboratory has confirmed an Ebola case in the major eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma, under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 militia, health authorities told AFP on Sunday.

"A positive case in Goma has been confirmed by tests carried out by the laboratory. It involves the wife of a man who died of Ebola in Bunia, who travelled to Goma after her husband's death whilst already infected," Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director of the Congolese National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB), told AFP.