Hunger threatens Congo
- 19-Dec-2022
Sitting in the dirt, Valerie Kahindo picks spoiled kernels from a sack of maize – the only job the farmer can find in the eastern Congo city of Goma after rebel fighters seized her fields and forced her to flee without her family. The mother of eight is among 450,000 people displaced in this year’s […]
Anti-Ebola radio in DR Congo closes down after killing
- 11-Nov-2019
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
Ebola death toll in east Congo outbreak climbs above 2,000
- 30-Aug-2019
Only the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been deadlier than the current outbreak. More than 11,300 people died then out of the 28,000 who were infected
First two Ebola cases confirmed in Congo’s South Kivu
- 16-Aug-2019
A woman and her child were the first two cases confirmed with Ebola in Congo’s South Kivu region this week, opening a new front in the fight against the outbreak
First Ebola patient in Congo’s Goma dies
- 16-Jul-2019
Three Ebola cases which originated in Congo were confirmed in neighbouring Uganda a month ago,