Tag: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

The agency said insecurity, population movement and operational constraints were complicating surveillance and contact tracing efforts, particularly in eastern DRC, ...

Nigeria has not reported any Ebola case, but the NCDC has activated risk communication and tightened surveillance at borders to ...

UNICEF warns that Nigeria is among the hardest-hit countries as cholera continues to spread across the region

Global powers and the tech industry are competing for African minerals.

Ineffective African interventions in the region have opened the door to more assertive external actors.

The country faces a public health crisis characterised by a poor supply of affordable medicines and too few pharmacies.

Although Africa faces pressing challenges on several fronts, the meeting of security councils was thin on concrete outcomes.

After the anti-MONUSCO protests in July 2022 resulting in the death of four peacekeepers, the DRCongo government asked for “an ...

The DRC, its neighbours, the AU and international community have failed to translate military victory into political success.

Missions struggle to navigate the political minefields that come with the broad goal of stabilising conflict situations.

WHO said this is the first time in more than a decade that Uganda is recording an outbreak of Sudan ...

Online and physical smuggling networks operating between Central and East Africa are decimating the parrot population.

Many countries have joined more than one organisation, which divides loyalties and constrains capacity and cohesion.

Mr Lumumba's killers dissolved his remains in acid, though some kept his teeth as macabre mementoes.

In a landscape dominated by violent extremism and deadly transnational armed groups, the force’s viability is in question.

Land-linked countries are responsible for maritime safety and development along Africa’s many rivers and lakes.

At least six people have been confirmed dead from the explosion.

Guinea declared the new outbreak on February 14, four years after the world’s worst Ebola crisis in West Africa between ...

The illegal immigrants were arrested when immigration officials conducted a clean-up operation in some densely populated residential areas in Lusaka.

12 reference laboratories in various African countries will provide sequencing, data analysis and technical support services to the rest of ...

Ebola outbreak had been reported in the city of Mbandaka, located in the DRC’s northwest

With no more new confirmed Ebola case in the country, the world has begun a 42-day countdown to declaring the ...

Various events were held across the world during the week ahead of the commemoration of the World AIDS Day on ...

The World Health organisation is introducing a new Ebola vaccine to complement the successes of the original vaccine.

"If these children do get sick, they are at risk of the severest health consequences, and least likely to access ...