Tag: DR Congo

The World Health Organisation declared DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak an international health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm as the virus threatens to...

A Congolese army officer arrived in Kafwaya village in June and warned residents not to trespass on a major Chinese copper and cobalt mine...

Unidentified attackers killed two Ebola health workers in eastern Congo over the weekend, the health ministry said, the latest in a string of assaults...

Congolese soldiers fired in the air as illegal miners protested outside a metallurgical plant on a copper and cobalt concession run by Glencore, a...

International Criminal Court judges convicted former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers on Monday. Ntaganda (45) was...

Insecurity in north-east Congo is hampering a measles vaccination drive and forcing people to flee, local responders said, complicating efforts to control the spread...

DR Congo’s military has deployed soldiers to protect a major copper and cobalt mine owned by China Molybdenum Co Ltd from illegal miners, an...

More than 300,000 people fled inter-ethnic violence in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since early June, complicating tracing and treatment of patients at risk...

Machete-wielding attackers descended on Esther Nzale’s village in north-eastern Congo eight days ago, setting houses on fire and hacking to death her husband and...

At least 161 people were killed in a Democratic Republic of Congo province in the past week, local officials said, in an apparent resurgence...