[Africa Renewal] Inventor Tommy Panzu Mbumba shares his journey in aeronautics with his latest invention the 'Safemaker'.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kinshasa, DRC -- The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with its immense natural resources and dynamic economic sectors, is fast becoming a pivotal player in Africa's economic landscape. Equity Group Holdings is leveraging it...

[Capital FM] Congolese communities across the globe united on Monday in coordinated protests at Congolese embassies, demanding urgent international action to address the ongoing atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

[allAfrica] Different parts of Africa are experiencing mpox outbreaks with multiple virus variants (clades), according to the latest WHO Situation Report:

[U.S. Mission to the UN] Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

[UN News] The UN Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) briefed the Security Council on Monday on recent developments, including political disagreements over constitutional reform and escalating insecurity in the east.

[Africa CDC] From 5 to 7 December, the Director General of Africa CDC, H.E. Dr. Jean Kaseya, travelled to the DRC to engage with national authorities, assess the situation on the ground, and extend Africa CDC's support in the investigation of an unkn...

[The Conversation Africa] A "mystery disease" recently struck the south-western corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing between 67 and 143 people over two weeks. The disease was reported to cause flu-like symptoms of fever, headache...

[RFI] Three years after Ugandan troops crossed into eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to fight rebels linked to the Islamic State, their mission has yielded mixed results, with accusations that Kampala is secretly supporting another Congolese rebe...

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- Africa continues to experience an increase in Mpox cases with hundreds of new infections confirmed in the past week, the Africa Centres for Disease Control warned in its latest update. The Africa CDC said more than 20 countrie...

[VOA] Harare, Zimbabwe -- Africa's Center for Disease Control and Prevention -- Africa CDC -- says it is working to identify a new disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has claimed at least 79 lives and infected hundreds more.

[RFI] An unknown disease has killed at least 143 people in Democratic Republic of Congo's southwestern Kwango province, with local officials warning the death toll will continue to rise.

[DW] The symptoms are similar to those of the flu. The epidemic is currently concentrated in the province of Kwango, in the west of the DRC.

[DFC] WASHINGTON, D.C -- U.S. International Development Finance Corporation CEO Scott Nathan accompanied U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on a visit to Angola. The U.S. Government announced the commitment of a loan of up to $553 million to upgrade ...

[RFI] US President Joe Biden announced more than $1 billion in funding for drought-stricken African nations as he ended his three-day visit to Angola with a summit at the port of Lobito, where a $3 billion railway project aims to connect Angola's Atl...

[White House] President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. met today with President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to discuss the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor and the broader economic partnershipand the bilateral relationship betwee...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Multilateral Summit on the Lobito Corridor, which is attended by Presidents João Lourenço (Angola), Joe Biden (United States), Félix Tshisekedi (DRC), Hakainde Hichilema (Zambia) and the Vice President of Tanzania...

[ANGOP] Benguela -- The Multilateral Summit on the Lobito Corridor plays an important role in attracting investments to boost this US-backed railway project, the provincial governor of Benguela, Manuel Nunes Júnior said today.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The third and final day of US President Joe Biden's visit was the highlight of his participation in Benguela in the Multilateral Summit on the Lobito Corridor, with his counterparts João Lourenço (Angola), Félix Tshis...

[VOA] Luanda/Lobito -- U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday headed to a U.S.-financed African development project that weaves together his personal love of railroads with his desire to leave a legacy on the continent that will outlive his administra...

[White House] Belas -- National Museum of Slavery

[Afropop] One of the most interesting acts we saw perform at WOMEX this year was Les Mamans du Congo. The group marries the natural, the found and the electronic to create their unique sound. French producer Rrobin provides the electronic elements, w...

[IPS] United Nations -- If and when the devastating military conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza come to an end, the ultimate winners will not be the Russians, the Americans or the Israelis but the world's arms manufacturers--contemptuously described as "m...

[CPJ] Kinshasa -- Following clashes with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) on October 29, M23 rebels attacked the facilities of the privately owned Mpety community radio station (RCMP) in the Walikale territory in easte...

[RFI] Belgium's Court of Appeals on Monday ordered the government to pay compensation to five Congolese women who were forcibly separated from their mothers during colonial rule. The court ruled that the abductions, which happened over 70 years ago, ...

[AI London] 'Today's ruling is a positive step towards repairing these historical injustices' - Rym Khadhraoui

[New Times] Rwanda's defensive measures put in place to counter a security threat from DR Congo will remain in place until agreements to neutralize the FDLR militia materialize, says the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

[Agenzia Fides] Kinshasa -- "An illegal order that the Archbishop of Lubumbashi did not follow," said the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi (in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo) in a statement regarding the ban imposed by General Eddy Kapend Yru...

[Nile Post] Aiming to halt the rapid spread of Mpox in one of Kinshasa's most densely populated neighbourhoods, Pakadjuma, the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Ministry of Public Health, in collaboration with the Africa Centres for Disease Contro...

[New Times] Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, in his book "Our Leadership and the Destiny of Tanzania", warned, "Bad leadership is like a rotten corpse; it invites hyenas and flies." Nowhere is this profoundly apt than in the Democratic Republic of C...