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Mobile court offers rare chance of justice for rape victims

A large crowd gathered around the open sides of the makeshift courtroom in the eastern Congolese village of Kamanyola in early March to watch...

Congo awards Lake Kivu gas blocks to US and Canadian producers

Democratic Republic of Congo has awarded licences to three natural gas blocks in Lake Kivu on its eastern border, with some production expected to...

Hunger threatens Congo

Sitting in the dirt, Valerie Kahindo picks spoiled kernels from a sack of maize - the only job the farmer can find in the...

Overcrowded stadium crush kills 11 people in Congolese capital

Eleven people were killed on Saturday, including two police officers, in a crash at an overcrowded stadium concert in Kinshasa headlined by Congolese singer...

Children find lost families as Congo conflict rages

Jason Kandeke and his sister Esther got out of the van and rushed into the arms of their weeping uncle and grandmother - the...

World Bank to fund $900 million development projects in east Congo

The World Bank and Congo have signed two funding conventions of$900 million to boost female entrepreneurship and access to water and electricity in the...

People take selfies in front of burning houses with lava from Congo volcano

Residents of Goma posed in front of the wreckage as the lava came to a halt on the outskirts of the city on Sunday 23 May, sparing it from disaster after the night-time eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano.

WATCH: Villagers rush to dig after mountain ‘filled with gold’ discovered

Another video was shared showing the locals washing the dirt off the precious metal and collecting them in metal containers.

Monolith torched in Congo after mysterious appearance

Mysterious Monolith Found In Congo Gets Torched By The Residents

At least 50 killed in collapsed gold mine in east Congo

At least 50 people are thought to have died when an artisanal gold mine collapsed near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Cong

Pakistani peacekeepers rescue over 2000 people in flood-hit Congo: ISPR

The peacekeepers built built a stone embankment to check flood water, which was strong enough to shift people & vehicles from affected area.

More than 5,000 measles deaths this year

Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo since January -- more than double the toll in the country's Ebola epidemic

Rollout of Ebola vaccine begins in Congo

The new vaccine, which has passed clinical trials but has never been tested in a real-world setting, will be administered to 50,000 people in Goma

Anti-Ebola radio in DR Congo closes down after killing

A local radio station that has been involved in the fight against Ebola in eastern DR Congo said Monday it was closing down after one of its broadcasters was murdered

Anti-Ebola fighter killed as new vaccine arrives

A radio host who helped spread the word in the fight against Ebola has been stabbed to death at his home in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo

WHO, Congo eye tighter rules for Ebola care over immunity concerns

The World Health Organization and Congolese authorities are proposing changes to how some Ebola patients are cared for, new guidelines show

Ebola survivors battle grief and stigma in eastern Congo

Arlette Kavugho was discharged from an Ebola ward in eastern Congo in March, but her troubles did not end there

Pharma gets nod for first ever Ebola vaccine

EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation in the European Union for Ervebo, the first vaccine for Ebola virus

One more succumbs to dengue virus in Karachi, tally jumps to 13

Another patient loses there life in the metropolis to dengue virus which has become a pandemic throughout the country.

Congo to deploy second Ebola vaccine

Health authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Saturday that they plan to introduce a second Ebola vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, to counter the second-worst outbreak of the virus in history.

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