borders

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The disease has spilled across Congo’s borders into Uganda, prompting the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency of international concern.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

Nearby were more family artifacts: photographs, keepsakes, fragments of lives divided across borders.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The centre of the outbreak is northeastern Ituri province, which borders Uganda and South Sudan.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

"Many of the affected areas are mining towns with highly mobile and transient populations. This mobility increases risk as people move between communities and across borders," says Lang.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Adah did weird, morbid things for her hope chest, black borders on cloth napkins and the like, which exhausted our mother.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver