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DR Congo hopes to declare end to Ebola outbreak in April
While the world's attention has been focused on the coronavirus, the last patient under treatment for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was discharged on Tuesday.
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Away from coronavirus, DR Congo battles deadly measles outbreak
Last year, more than 18 million children under the age of five were vaccinated for measles across DR Congo and around 310,000 suspected cases were reported.
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Death toll in eastern DR Congo massacre rises to 36: local official
Officials had earlier reported 15 people had been killed in a provisional death toll.
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DR Congo army says ADF rebels killed 30 soldiers
They suffered the losses during the latest offensive Thursday against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), in North Kivu province, Major Mak Hazukai told journalists Saturday.
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17 prisoners starve to death in Kinshasa
Prisoners' families and NGOs said that the government was not supplying food or medicine to the jail and around 100 more inmates were gravely ill.
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SA military plane crash lands in Congo, no sign of major damage
Videos on social media showed smoke rising from the airplane but two sources at the airport, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there did not appear to be major damage to the plane.
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18 killed in new militia attack in eastern DR Congo
It's understood that 18 people have been hacked to death in eastern DR Congo's troubled region of Beni.
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MSF pulls staff from DR Congo's east after incident
The NGO becomes the latest aid agency to withdraw its staff from the Biakato region after an unclaimed attack last week saw three Ebola workers killed at an accommodation camp in Biakato Mines in Ituri province.
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Floods kill at least 39 in Congolese capital Kinshasa
The vice governor of Kinshasa province, Néron Mbungu, said rescue workers were continuing to hunt for bodies.
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WHO, Unicef evacuate 76 staff from Ebola teams in Congo due to insecurity
Rebels believed to belong to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed eight people in an overnight raid on Sunday.
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WHO: Insecurity threatens chance to end DRC Ebola outbreak
The affected eastern DRC provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, suffer from chronic insecurity, with various militia groups operating in the region.
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IMF agrees lending programme with DR Congo
The IMF suspended its last aid to Congo after the government failed to provide sufficient details on the sale of state mining assets to an offshore company.
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Second Ebola vaccine introduced in DR Congo
The new J&J vaccine had initially been rejected by DRC's former health minister Oly Ilunga, who cited the risks of introducing a new product in communities where mistrust of Ebola responders is already high.
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DR Congo warlord faces life in prison over mass rape
Frederic Masudi Alimasi, known as Kokodikoko, and two other men 'committed crimes against humanity including rape, torture, murder, imprisonment and sexual slavery,' said military prosecutor Major Apollinaire Yoma Mukoko.
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Four Burundian journalists charged with undermining state security
The journalists from domestic news website Iwacu and their driver had travelled to report on violence in the northwestern province of Bubanza when they were arrested on Tuesday
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Burundi security forces kill 14 armed men plotting attack
Three residents of the town of Kayange told Reuters they heard sounds of gunfire outside the town early on Tuesday and had fled into the nearby forest to hide.
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Ebola concentrated in Congo mining area, still an emergency - WHO
The virus has infected 3,227 people and killed 2,154 of them since the outbreak was declared in August 2018 and went on to became the world’s second-worst outbreak, it said.
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Ebola still an 'urgent' global health emergency: WHO
DRC's latest Ebola epidemic, which began in August 2018, has killed 2,144 people, making it the second deadliest outbreak of the virus, after the West Africa pandemic of 2014-2016.
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Ebola survivors battle grief and stigma in eastern Congo
More than 3,200 people are known to have been infected with the virus, of whom more than 2,100 have died since the outbreak was declared in the eastern region.
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International Rivers calls on SA to not import hydropower from DRC
The non-profit organisation, International Rivers, claimed the foreign-owned hydropower would cost R400 million more per annum compared to domestic power.
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Congo to start using J&J Ebola vaccine in November
The J&J vaccine will complement another vaccine manufactured by Merck, which has been administered to more than 225,000 people.
