DR Congo Stories

Ruto courts Angolan President Lourenço for support ahead of AUC chairperson's election
Mwangi Maina  |  Jan 10, 2025

On his way back from Ghana where he attended President John Mahama's inauguration, Ruto made a brief stop in Luanda for talks on regional peace, bilat...

Ethiopian Airlines partners with DRC to launch Air Congo
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jan 02, 2025

Ethiopian Airlines CEO Mesfin Tasew termed the partnership as a significant milestone in the airline’s strategy to strengthen African air transport.

UN peacekeepers guard Congolese farmers working their fields
Reuters  |  Dec 21, 2024

The operation to guard farmers who grow corn, beans, potatoes and manioc is known as "Secure Harvest" and it aims to allow them to work freely during...

United Nations extends DR Congo peacekeeping mission for a year
Reuters  |  Dec 21, 2024

The renewal means nearly 11,000 peacekeepers will continue their deployment until at least December 2025.

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi sacks military top brass in major reshuffle
Reuters  |  Dec 20, 2024

The last significant military reshuffle took place in October 2022, when Tshisekedi appointed Tshiwewe as chief of staff.

Congo's health ministry says unknown disease is severe malaria
Reuters  |  Dec 18, 2024

Earlier this month, local authorities said the disease had killed 143 people in the southwestern Kwango province in November.

Congo files criminal complaints against Apple in France, Belgium over conflict minerals
Reuters  |  Dec 17, 2024

Some artisanal mines are run by armed groups involved in massacres of civilians, mass rapes, looting and other crimes, according to UN experts and hum...

Ebola: How a vaccine turned a terrifying virus into a preventable disease
The Conversation  |  Dec 14, 2024

The vaccine was deployed during the 2018-2020 Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo under emergency use authorisation.

Congo to get Japan's mpox vaccine for children from next week, Africa CDC says
Reuters  |  Dec 13, 2024

The doses' arrival will boost hopes of curbing the outbreak, which the WHO has declared a global public health emergency.

Foreign mercenaries on duty in Democratic Republic of Congo
DW News  |  Dec 11, 2024

Retired military officers from Europe protect the DRC capital of North Kivu from falling to Rwandan-backed rebels. The job is well paid but soldiers m...

White malice: How the CIA strangled African independence at birth
The Conversation  |  Dec 08, 2024

The US’s obsessive anti-communism, which escalated in the era of Senator Joseph McCarthy, at times took lethal forms when governments or leaders were...

WHO sends experts to help DR Congo diagnose mystery disease
Reuters  |  Dec 07, 2024

Symptoms of the illness include headache, cough, fever, breathing difficulties and anaemia, according to the WHO.

Congo landslide kills at least nine people, most of them children
Reuters  |  Nov 24, 2024

A local civil society group said seven homes had been swept away and 31 damaged, putting the death toll at 10.

SADC renews its mission in eastern DRC by a year
Mary Wambui  |  Nov 21, 2024

They also welcomed the continued efforts of the African Union Peace and Security Council and the United Nations Security Council in exploring options...

Congo opposition calls for protests against plans to reform constitution
Reuters  |  Nov 21, 2024

Tshisekedi said the current constitution, ratified by a referendum in 2005, needed to change because it did not align with the country's current reali...

DR Congo probes vandalism at site of tooth believed to be Lumumba’s
Reuters  |  Nov 20, 2024

A police officer present at the scene on Tuesday morning told Reuters that the coffin where the tooth had been was "open and empty".

SADC heads of state meet in Zimbabwe over Eastern DRC crisis
Lucy Mumbi  |  Nov 17, 2024

The leaders are expected to receive an update on the progress of the SADC Mission in the DRC (SAMIDRC), which was deployed on December 15, 2023, for a...

Health official says mpox vaccine rollout in Congo slower than expected
Reuters  |  Oct 19, 2024

Congo's mpox vaccination campaign is a key step in efforts to contain the outbreak at its epicentre

UN says Congo rebels generating Sh38 million monthly in seized mining area
Reuters  |  Oct 01, 2024

The M23 movement, a Tutsi-led organisation purportedly backed by Rwanda, seized the area, which produces minerals used in smartphones and computers, f...

DRC's South Kivu governor clears miners to resume operations
Reuters  |  Sep 24, 2024

He added that a team would be dispatched to carry out investigations into each mining company to prevent the exploitation of the local population.

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