By Reuters Armed militants killed more than 35 civilians in an attack on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a village chief and a lawmaker said on Tuesday, with a search for more bodies expected to lift the eventual death toll sharply. The head of the […]
Rebels marched into the center of east Congo’s largest city on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of decades of conflict in a region already suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Patrick Kamara hosts Mr Dismas Nkunda, Hon James Mbahimba, Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye, and Mr Sam […]
bY REUTERS Dozens of feverish patients lay on thin mattresses on the floor of a makeshift mpox isolation ward in east Democratic Republic of Congo, as overstretched hospital workers grappled with drug shortages and lack of space to accommodate the influx. Congo is the epicentre of an mpox outbreak that […]
By REUTERS The US said on Wednesday it would provide nearly $414 million in humanitarian assistance for the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 25 million people need such aid, nearly a quarter of the country’s population. US Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, Jeffrey Prescott, told Reuters a […]
By AFP The United Nations was to kick off Wednesday the withdrawal of MONUSCO peacekeeping forces from the Democratic Republic of Congo by handing over a first UN base to national police. The DRC demanded the withdrawal despite UN concerns about rampant violence in the east of the country. Kinshasa […]
