Until now, the international response to the rapidly escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the ...

Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government, as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) raised serious alarms Thursday about the escalating ...

ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The number of mpox cases reported in Africa has surpassed 19,500 so far this year, as conflict and "massive displacement" in the eastern Democratic Republic of the ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa-CDC) has announced the provision of US$1.6 million to nine ...

As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

If security situation not resolved and combined with US aid suspension, DR Congo will become epicenter of major pandemic outbreak, says Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief - Anadol ...

At least 50 people have died from an unknown disease in northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC. Local authorities ...

Elian Peltier and Guerchom Ndebo reported from both Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gisenyi, Rwanda. Published Feb. 19, 2025 Updated Feb. 22, 2025, 11:01 p.m. ET ...

Mpox outbreaks have affected 22 African countries, and 13 are in the active phase. Cases are trending upward in 6 countries: ...

In the first of the 2 outbreaks, affected children had contact with bats. Further investigations are under way for both ...