Congolese authorities Saturday began vaccinations against mpox, nearly two months after the outbreak, which spread from Congo to several African countries and beyond, was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization.
The 265,000 (...)
The US has blamed the Rwandan army and M23 rebel group for the deadly bombing of a displacement camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At least nine people, including seven children, were killed in the strike on the Mugunga camp in the eastern (...)
Emile Bolingo is not sure how long he and other residents of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, can hold out.
This major city in the region, with about two million people, has been cut off from the farms that feed it for several (...)
At least six protesters and one policeman were killed in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Wednesday when a demonstration against the UN peacekeeping mission and other foreign organizations turned violent, Reuters reported citing the Congolese (...)
Fabien Mwingwa once fought as a child soldier with an armed group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Today, he has turned his life around, and works for the UN peacekeeping mission in the country as a firefighter, helping to keep local (...)
The United Nations will work together with the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as well as other partners, in ensuring security in the eastern part of the country, said Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN's top peacekeeping (...)
Tens of thousands of people are trying to escape the Congolese city of Goma after authorities issued an evacuation order warning that the Mount Nyiragongo volcano could erupt again.
At least 31 people have died and 30,000 were forced to flee their (...)
A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption covered hundreds of houses in eastern Congo on Sunday, leaving residents to pick gingerly through the wreckage, though the flow halted just short of the major city of Goma, Reuters reported.
Goma was (...)
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a new case of Ebola in the remote, militia-controlled territory of Walikale, hundreds of kilometers away from where previous cases near the border with Uganda and Rwanda occurred, the (...)
Congolese forces killed 26 rebels on Thursday from a group thought to be linked to Daesh (the so-called IS) while repelling an attack in east Congo's Ebola zone, the army said.
The shootout took place in a village near the city of Beni, an area (...)
Nine people have been confirmed dead from Ebola in
Congo, with more than twice that number suspected of having died from
the virus, according to the Health Ministry.
Overall suspected and confirmed cases stand at 52, the ministry said in a statement (...)
The United Nations has discovered an additional 38 potential mass graves in Congo's central Kasai region, the director of the UN Joint Human Rights Office in Congo said on Wednesday.
The discovery brings the total of mass graves, announced by the UN (...)
Eight militiamen and two Congolese soldiers have been killed in fighting in the east of the country, the army said Saturday.
According to dpa, the militia ambushed an army convoy in an attempt to seize weapons and munition near Nyamilima village in (...)
Eight militiamen and two Congolese soldiers have been killed in fighting in the east of the country, the army said Saturday.
According to dpa, the militia ambushed an army convoy in an attempt to seize weapons and munition near Nyamilima village in (...)
The Congolese authorities have identified 10 more mass graves in the central Kasai region, bringing the total to 52, Attorney General Flory Kabange Numbi said Monday.
The UN had previously documented 42 mass graves in the region, dpa reported.
The (...)
Three Congolese working with the mining company Banro, have recently been released following a three-month abduction, Interior Minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary said on Monday.
The release of the three followed that on Saturday of a French Banro (...)
At least 60 people have been killed in clashes between government soldiers and an armed militia group in Congo, officials said Saturday.
Most of those killed belonged to the Kamwena Nsapu militia, local authorities told dpa. The militia were (...)
Sixteen fighters from the reactivated Congolese rebel movement M23 have been killed during two days of fighting with the army in the east of the country, a military spokesman said Thursday.
According to dpa, five rebels were also captured and 58 (...)
About 19 people have been killed in an attack by an armed group on two Congolese villages, a local youth leader said Saturday.
According to dpa, the militia known as Mai Mai Mazembe, most of whose members belong to the Nande ethnic group, attacked (...)
About 19 people have been killed in anti-government protests in Congo's capital Kinshasa, the UN said Wednesday.
According to dpa, about 45 people were injured and at least 200 arrested, Aranaz said in Kinshasa.
He did not give figures for protests (...)
At least 22 people are dead after anti-government
protests in various cities in Congo, with more than 275 arrested,
Congolese police reported on Wednesday, according to dpa.
The deaths occurred Tuesday as demonstrators clashed with police to protest (...)
An appeals court in Mauritania overturned the convictions of three anti-slavery activists on Friday and reduced the sentences of 10 others for their alleged role in a riot in June, Amnesty International said, Reuters reported.
A tribunal had (...)
Civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said the number of people hacked to death in the restive east this weekend has risen to 51.
"Our team on the ground has counted 51 bodies slain with machetes," said Teddy Kataliko, a (...)
At least 11 former members of armed rebel groups were killed Wednesday when their protest was put down by the army in Kamina in southern Congo, demonstrators said, according to dpa.
The former rebels, who were being lodged at an army base, were (...)
Sixteen people have been killed in fighting between the army and rebel groups in eastern Congo, the army said Wednesday, according to dpa.
Fighting has raged since Sunday in Masisi territory in North Kivu province after a coalition comprising the (...)
