All news on the topic: Democratic Republic of the Congo

The first case of the deadly Ebola virus has been detected in France after a doctor returned from a visit to the Congo.

NHS staff have been advised to prepare for potential Ebola cases reaching the UK due to a rapidly growing outbreak of the deadly virus in Africa.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus heads to Ituri province where the epidemic is centered and calls for a halt to fighting that hinders medical relief efforts

A woman has been placed in quarantine in the Indian city of Bengaluru with a suspected case of Ebola, after she travelled to the country from Uganda.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak spreading across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest level of global health alert under international law.

Two Congolese civil society groups have filed a legal discovery action in the United States against the Texas-based oil and gas company that won the largest concession to extract methane from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lake Kivu.

A Congolese court has sentenced former Justice Minister Constant Mutamba to three years of forced labor for embezzling public funds, including money intended as reparations for war victims.

Guy Loando and his wife held control over more than one-third of the shares in a newly established company that secured a $25 million contract to undertake work on enhancing a major highway in 2019.

Residents living near the morgue are at risk of health issues because the decomposing bodies are polluting the air, while the local authority claims the facility is operating ’normally’.

The outbreak, initially identified in three children who consumed a bat, has resulted in 431 cases and 53 deaths.

Congolese authorities accused of abandoning Bukavu after government confirms its fall to a militia group.

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi traveled to Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference in an effort to rally international support.

Humanitarian concerns are increasing as the airport remains the final barrier before the city of Bukavu and its population of approximately 1 million people.

Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city.

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