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Uganda strikes at ADF rebels in DR Congo following suicide blasts
Witness accounts reaching Beni, the chief town in the border province of North Kivu, reported heavy artillery fire in the Watalinga sector, causing panic at the...
Some of the Democratic Republic of Congo's former child soldiers have become traders, hairdressers, and tailors, but many have struggled to recover a normal life.
Deadly road accidents are frequent in DRC where the roads are full of old vehicles that often do not comply with safety norms.
Goma, located on the shore of Lake Kivu, has been gripped by fear since Africa's most active volcano erupted on Saturday, leaving 32 people dead.
The WHO's office in the Democratic Republic of Congo said four people in Biene had been vaccinated and 334 other contacts would also receive the jab.
Since the West African Ebola crisis of 2013-16 - which left 11,300 dead across the region - the WHO has eyed each new outbreak with great concern, treating the most recent Congolese epidemic as an international health emergency.
An expert in the area, who asked to remain anonymous, said 14 bodies had been found and more people were missing after the assault.
The political scene in sub-Saharan Africa's biggest country has been roiled by a months-long struggle between Felix Tshisekedi and Joseph Kabila supporters.
The deadliest clash occurred on Friday when "attackers armed with guns and knives killed 21 civilians in Mahagi," said Gilbert Tsale, a senior regional official in the eastern Ituri province.
The country has reported 23 cases total since 10 March, and the death brings the total number of fatalities in sub-Saharan Africa to three.
The confusion surrounding Congo's first coronavirus case was a misstep by a government that has worked hard to combat misinformation during the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.
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.
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.
The not-for-profit Congo Research Group said the new massacre brought to 99 the number of civilians killed by armed groups in the Beni area since 5 November.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of a decision last Monday by the European Commission to allow the release to market of an injectable vaccine.
Affordability and reliability are perhaps the biggest and most controversial of the issues plaguing the proposed Grand Inga DAM in the DRC, write Trusha Reddy and Rudo Sanyanga.
Ambassador Ben Mpoko said they informed the South African government of their non-attendance much earlier.
The Democratic Republic of Congo announced a coalition government Monday, seven months after the inauguration of new President Felix Tshisekedi.
Walikale lies about 200 km (125 miles) west of Goma, one of the towns affected by the Ebola epidemic, and much further away from the epicentre of the epidemic in Butembo and Beni.