Three new cases were reported in Mbandaka and tested positive for the Ebola virus, Health Minister Oly Ilunga said in the statement... READ MORE›
The Ebola outbreak in Congo can be brought under control and is not an international public health emergency, experts advising the World Health Organizatio... READ MORE›
Eleven new cases were confirmed Friday, including two more in an urban area... READ MORE›
KINSHASA - World agencies and neighboring countries on Friday hiked their response to an Ebola outbreak in Congo as the toll from the notorious disease mounted... READ MORE›
Vast, impoverished Congo has contained several past Ebola outbreaks but the spread of the hemorrhagic fever to an urban area poses a major challenge... READ MORE›
But the vaccine must be seen in the context of an overarching public health response... READ MORE›
Late on Thursday, the DRC health ministry confirmed 11 previously suspected cases of Ebola and two more deaths, taking the total number of cases, including 25 deaths, to 45... READ MORE›
Vast, impoverished Congo has contained several past Ebola outbreaks but the spread of the hemorrhagic fever to an urban area poses a major challenge... READ MORE›
DR Congo Ebola outbreak WHO in emergency talks as cases spread... READ MORE›
A concurrent but much smaller and unrelated Ebola outbreak took place in Congo in 2014 as well... READ MORE›
The World Health Organization shipped 4,000 doses of a newly developed Ebola vaccine to Kinshasa on Wednesday, and vaccination could start on Monday, Dr. Salama said... READ MORE›
Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to a crossroads city of more than 1 million people, authorities said Thursday in a troubling turn that marks the first ti... READ MORE›
Ebola outbreak declared in democratic republic of the congo after three die... READ MORE›
Last week, a top WHO official warned that if the virus reached Mbandaka, Congo could be confronted with yet another Ebola crisis... READ MORE›
Nine Ebola outbreaks have occurred in DRC since the virus was first identified in 1976... READ MORE›
The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly hard to control... READ MORE›
Congo has agreed to allow the World Health Organization to use an experimental Ebola vaccine to combat an outbreak announced last week, the WHO director-ge... READ MORE›
The WHO said on Friday it hopes to deploy an experimental Ebola vaccine to tackle an outbreak... READ MORE›
Britons Kidnapped In Democractic Republic Of Congo's Virunga National Park Are Released Unharmed... READ MORE›
At least 26 people have been killed and seven others wounded in an attack in northwest Burundi, according to officials... READ MORE›
To fund its programs for the children of Kasai in 2018, UNICEF has appealed for 88 million... READ MORE›
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Ebola virus disease EVD was first discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks... READ MORE›
At least 17 people have died in an area of northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo DRC where health officials confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus... READ MORE›
Following these events Linafoot has suspended its championship, the Ligue Nationale de Football said on their official website www.linafoot.com on Wednesday... READ MORE›
It is not the first time judges have been sacked in the mineral-rich central African country... READ MORE›
In a statement Tuesday, Virunga officials blamed Mai Mai militia members for the attack that killed five rangers and a park driver... READ MORE›
'We know we may be killed' the rangers risking their lives for Virunga's gorillas... READ MORE›
The DRC's attorney general said last week he had opened an investigation into allegations about Katumbi's Italian nationality, first reported by Paris-based magazine Jeune Afrique... READ MORE›
Mining sector revenue rose 35.6 percent while revenue from the oil and gas sector jumped by 103 percent, finance ministry data showed... READ MORE›
READ MORE Sierra Leone mudslide What, where and why?... READ MORE›
Among Othman's new findings are In February 1961, the French secretly supplied three Fouga warplanes to the Katanga rebels, against the objections of the US government ... READ MORE›
Catholic protesters rallied in the capital, Kinshasa, and other cities after Sunday mass to demand Kabila, whose second term as president ended in December 2016, step down... READ MORE›
The head of Monusco, Maman Sidikou, said I condemn in the strongest terms this deadly attack on United Nations peacekeepers and the FARDC... READ MORE›
Wildlife rangers at Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were killed in an ambush by Mai Mai rebels... READ MORE›
Out of the 3,360 refugees who have fled into northern Zambia since August 30, at least 60 percent are children, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR ... READ MORE›
The scale of people fleeing violence is off the charts, outpacing Syria, Yemen and Iraq, the Norwegian Refugee Council's DR Congo director, Ulrika Blom, said... READ MORE›
Francis said the prayers and fasting should be offered in a particular way for the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan... READ MORE›
The widespread marches had been called for by the country's Catholic Church, which appealed for a large but peaceful demonstration... READ MORE›
As cigarette sales decline around the world, British American Tobacco sees fragile states as one of the few remaining growth markets for its deadly products... READ MORE›
A full 60 percent of those arriving in Zambia are children, including many showing signs of malnutrition, the UNHCR said... READ MORE›
Congolese security forces have killed at least 18 Burundian refugees during clashes over plans to send some of them home... READ MORE›
Some also posted about access to churches being blocked in certain neighbourhoods of Kinshasa ahead of the demonstration... READ MORE›
In May 2010, a mudslide swept over the eastern Congo village of Kibiriga and killed 19 people... READ MORE›
A spokesperson for United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, meanwhile, expressed concern about reports that security forces had violently dispersed the protests... READ MORE›
The report was based on interviews from 96 refugees who had fled they country's Kasai provinces into neighbouring Angola... READ MORE›
Antonio Guterres, UN secretary general, described the attack by an Islamist extremist group as a 'war crime'... READ MORE›
Many of them are backed by government forces as they try to quash the Kamwina Nsapu militia... READ MORE›
Officials say the number of people displaced by conflict has nearly doubled in the past six months to 1.5 million... READ MORE›
Some of DR Congo's African neighbours proved themselves as ruthless as any Western imperialist in exploiting the country's resources... READ MORE›
At least five people are killed as authorities crack down on banned demonstrations against President Joseph Kabila... READ MORE›
Kabila's future Kabila came to power in 2001 after the assassination of his father, Laurent-Desire Kabila, the country's third president... READ MORE›
One in 10 people living in rural areas suffers from acute hunger, while chronic malnutrition affects 43 per cent of children under five years, the FAO report said... READ MORE›
But for male rape survivors like Stephen, life there can be tough... READ MORE›
But in developing countries, digital currencies could succeed as a real form of money, Goldman Sachs Group Inc... READ MORE›
But in developing countries, digital currencies could succeed as a real form of money, Goldman Sachs Group Inc... READ MORE›
Days of flooding rains have left parts of central Kinshasa in ruins... READ MORE›
'Arbitrary arrests' The UN Joint Human Rights Office in the DRC also condemned the arrests on its Twitter account... READ MORE›
In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe considers the fate of ousted President Robert Mugabe as he celebrates his 94th birthday... READ MORE›
In second place is Zurich, followed by Auckland, New Zealand Munich and Vancouver, Canada... READ MORE›
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