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[WHO] The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with stronger early...

[CPJ] Kinshasa -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to ensure the safety of exiled Congolese journalist John Zihindula Bwirabwanda, whose Ugandan home was broken into by armed men who threatened to kill him for posting...

[UN News] Agencies are on high alert amid reports that the rapidly spreading Ebola Bundibugyo virus species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has infected 19 internally displaced people, killed five of them, according to the UN's refugee ...

[RFI] The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic ⁠of Congo is spreading faster than efforts to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization has warned, with nearly 4,000 confirmed cases so far. With five provinces known to be affecte...

[Unicef] Disruption of services and fear of infection drive over 40 per cent decline in childhood immunizations, safe deliveries, and essential healthcare in the epicentre of the outbreak

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[New Times] DR Congo must dismantle the FDLR, separate the militia from its armed forces and repatriate its members to Rwanda as required under the Washington Accords, government Spokesperson Yolande Makolo has said.

[ANGOP] Lobito -- The incompatibility of the Democratic Republic of Congo's railway line with that of Angola has created constraints in the operation of the Lobito Corridor, according to Katila Neto, the commercial administrator of the Port of Lobito...

[UN News] Results may be months away, but efforts are advancing towards enhanced treatment and the world's first vaccine for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday as deaths and cases rise in the largest ...

[The New Humanitarian] Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- "The dialogue must be neither a ploy to cling to power nor a mere marketplace for negotiating political posts."

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[HRW] Hydrocarbons Ministry Expects Full Audit of Oil Company by Late September

[UN News] New UN-backed centres will serve eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as confirmed Ebola cases continued to climb sharply over the weekend in the largest ever outbreak of the highly contagious disease in the country.

[New Times] A conditional proposal has emerged from the Kinshasa-backed FDLR genocidal militia to lay down its arms, contingent upon formal dialogue with Rwandan authorities. DR Congo and the Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio, acting as mediator, ful...

[AIM] China's third medical expert team for the Ebola response arrived in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on Saturday to support the country's efforts to strengthen its defenses against the epidemic.

[Nile Post] The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, has donated 10 brand-new Toyota Land Cruiser utility pickup trucks to the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) serving under Operation Shujaa, in recogni...

[United States Senate] WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the State Department to ta...

[RFI] The Democratic Republic of Congo's Constitutional Court has approved a referendum law that critics say could pave the way for President Felix Tshisekedi to seek a third term in office, prompting a coalition of opposition parties to reject the r...

[IPS] United Nations -- The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record, with United Nations officials warning that hunger is actively undermining efforts to contain the spread.

[UN News] The UN emergency food agency appealed for immediate funding on Wednesday, warning that deepening hunger is undermining the response to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has now infected more than 3,200 peo...

[The Conversation Africa] The Ebola outbreak that emerged in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and crossed into neighbouring Uganda may have been killing people for weeks before the alarm was raised. When Médecins Sans Frontières inv...

[New Times] In 1980, director Jamie Uys made cinematic history with the satirical comedy The gods must be crazy. The story begins with an act so ordinary that it appears insignificant. Flying over the Kalahari Desert, a pilot casually tosses an empty...

[RFI] The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed to 1,405, with confirmed cases now at 3,200, government data showed Sunday, as researchers race to develop a vaccine.

[HRW] Transparency Needed to Address Health Risks to Nearby Communities

[Premium Times] The report, which covers data up to Saturday, showed that 571 patients have recovered, while 773 others remain in isolation and under medical supervision

[SADC] The Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Government of Botswana co-hosted the High-Level Harmonisation Meeting of the AU Panel of Facilitators and the Independent Joint Secretariat (IJS) on the peace pr...

[RFI] Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo went on strike Saturday over payment issues, disrupting care for patients in the epicenter of the country's rapidly growing outbreak.

[UN News] A new mobile UN peacekeeping base in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has allowed local authorities to continue responding to the fast-moving Ebola outbreak there after violence disrupted the work of medics at a treatment centre s...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angolan president João Lourenço received on Friday a message from his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, regarding the security situation in the east of that African country.