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UNICEF staff and airport workers receive an aircraft carrying medical supplies as authorities and aid agencies intensified efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain at the Bunia National Airport in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pope Leo XIV called on the international community on Sunday…
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Mineral-rich eastern Congo has been battered by decades of conflict as government forces and allied militias fight more than 100 armed groups, the most potent of them the Rwandan-backed M23. File. | Photo Credit: AP Congo said Friday (June 26, 2026) it has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice, accusing…
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Demonstrators protest against military attacks on the Banyamulenge people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the Capitol in Washington. File | Photo Credit: AP The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo warned on Saturday (May 9, 2026) of a “deadly” wave of attacks in the country’s restive east targeting civilians. “Dozens…
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Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo: Rwanda-backed rebels on Monday claimed they captured Goma, the largest city in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the United Nations reported “mass panic” among its 2 million residents. The city’s capture came after a 48-hour deadline imposed by M23 rebels for the Congolese army to…
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An unknown disease with flu-like symptoms has killed at least 79 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the BBC. The unidentified disease has infected 300 people in DR Congo since November 10, causing flu-like symptoms including fever, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties and anaemia, the country’s health ministry said. Most of the dead…
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The World Health Organization signage is seen outside its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 15, 2020. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan has detected three patients with the mpox virus, the health department in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said on Friday (August 16, 2024). The viral infection was detected in the patients on their arrival from…
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Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame attend his swearing-in ceremony after a landslide win in last month’s election at the Amahoro Stadium, Gasabo District of Kigali, Rwanda, August 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Rwanda’s all-powerful President Paul Kagame was sworn in Sunday for a fourth term, saying regional peace was a…
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Members of the Congolese Army sentenced to death for desertion and cowardice when fighting M23 rebels sit inside the military courtroom during their trial in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo May 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Innocent Kasereka sits in a rundown hospital in the war-torn east of the Democratic…
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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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