Journal
Reports, analyses and features from all 194 countries - the journalism behind the journeys.
The Border the Gorillas Ignore
Roughly a thousand mountain gorillas live across three countries: one at war and under an Ebola emergency, one that has just ended its own outbreak, and one selling the world’s most expensive wildlife permit. A thousand kilometers west, their lowland cousins can be visited in three more countries including the forest where Ebola once killed five thousand of them. What a visit in 2026 actually involves, what it costs and what it costs the animals.
Ebola Without a Vaccine
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is fighting the largest Ebola outbreak in its history with a virus for which no vaccine and no treatment is licensed. Six thousand confirmed cases in fifteen weeks, an armed conflict at the epicenter, and a world that had prepared for a different strain.