The 2026 World Cup will bring together roughly 1,248 players from 48 different countries for the largest edition of the tournament, but with that comes concerns of a fast-growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
DR Congo, set to compete in their first World Cup since 1974 (when they competed as Zaier), have cancelled their pre-World Cup training camp in Kinshasa, the nation’s capital, due to the Ebola outbreak in the region.
