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For more than six decades after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, there was silence. He was shot. His body was dismembered and dissolved in sulphuric acid. No one was held accountable. Now, that silence may finally be breaking. The attention is now on 93 year old Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon who will stand trial Source…
A Rwandan National Police officer watches M23 rebel troops arrive at the Rusizi border post joining the Congolese city of Bukavu with Cyangugu in Rwanda, on February 16, 2025 in Cyangugu, Rwanda. | Photo Credit: Getty images Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, frightened residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose…
What is happening in Congo? | Video Credit: The Hindu On January 27, 2025, the rebel group M23 announced they had captured much of the provincial capital of Goma. Almost immediately, panic set in. Hundreds of thousands of residents scrambled to escape—some fled deeper into Congo, while others crossed into Rwanda. By January 28, the…
LONDON (AP) — British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo. Representational image | Photo Credit: Justin Makangara British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking…
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This first delivery amounts to 99,000 doses. (Representational) Kinshasa: Democratic Republic of Congo received its first batch of mpox vaccines on Thursday, which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak that has prompted the U.N. to declare a global public health emergency. Congo is the epicentre of the outbreak, which has spread to neighbouring…
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More than four years since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO (World Health Organization) in March 2020, fear of another mass outbreak looms large. The WHO, on August 14, declared the current upsurge of Mpox or Monkeypox in Central Africa as a global emergency requiring urgent action. The global concern for the virus…
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Videos on social media showed men in fatigues at the Palais de la Nation, brandishing flags of Zaire. Kinshasa, DR Congo: The DR Congo military on Sunday said it had thwarted an “attempted coup” near the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa involving “foreigners and Congolese”. It happened in the early hours of the…
Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi. File | Photo Credit: VIA REUTERS Congo’s army says it has “foiled a coup” on May 19 morning and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and guards of a close ally of Congo’s president that left three people dead in the capital,…
Judith Suminwa Tuluka. | Photo Credit: X/@SuminwaJudith President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo on April 1 appointed the country’s first female Prime Minister, fulfilling a campaign promise and making an important step towards the formation of a new government after being reelected late last year. Former Planning Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka will…
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