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[UN News] The cholera epidemic continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where more than 125,000 suspected cases and 3,644 suspected deaths were recorded between January 2025 and the end of September 2026, the World Health Organi...

[New Times] There are calamities that explode suddenly and shock the conscience of the world. And then there are others that develop slowly, systematically and almost politely--so much that the world learns to look away without even the inconvenience...

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[New Times] Former DR Congo President Joseph Kabila and other signatories to the newly established Front pour la refondation de la nation (FRN) said the country's deepening political, security, economic and social crises have made a fundamental chang...

[RFI] Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila has joined forces with the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group to lead a new political and military alliance, marking his most direct intervention yet in the conflict that has gripped the co...

[Independent (Kampala)] Kinshasa, DRC -- Hundreds of thousands of children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing major disruptions to their education as the country battles its largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak, the Norwegia...

[African Arguments] The peace agreement between Congo and Rwanda contains one promise about justice: that no fighter will be taken into the Congolese army until someone has checked whether they committed atrocities. The last time Congo skipped that c...

[Agenzia Fides] Kinshasa -- Former President Joseph Kabila is at the helm of a new political-military movement announced on 12 October in Goma, capital of North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Front for th...

[New Times] Former DR Congo President Joseph Kabila was named as the leader of a new politico-military movement called the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), launched in Goma on Monday, October 12.

[Nile Post] Blackwater founder Erik Prince's private security company has suffered a major setback in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), with about 20 members of a team linked to his firm reportedly killed or wounded in an ambush, Reute...

[New Times] A total of 367 people returned to Rwanda on Wednesday, October 8, from eastern DR Congo through the Grande Barrière and Rusizi border posts as part of ongoing repatriation efforts.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Former President Uhuru Kenyatta is in Rwanda as part of renewed African Union-led diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

[New Times] Minister Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Olivier Nduhungirehe on Tuesday, October 6, received former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, a member of the African Union Panel of Facilitators for the peace process in eastern DR Co...

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[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Wednesday, October 7, met members of the African Union Panel of Facilitators working on the peace process in eastern DR Congo, at Village Urugwiro.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Health authorities in Wajir have isolated a 20-year-old man with a recent travel history to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after he developed a severe febrile illness and failed to respond to treatment.

[CPJ] Investigative journalist Gauthier Sey Tshiang was evacuated to France on Monday for medical treatment after being assaulted and left unconscious in a street -- one of a series of attacks on the press in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in r...

[African Arguments] Many people may have never heard of Minembwe, and those who know it may have learned about it through stories of war, displacement and hunger. For me, however, it is much more than a story. Minembwe is home to me and to many other...

[UN News] The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is robbing children of their loved ones - with some succumbing to the deadly disease themselves, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday.

[Capital FM] Kenya has confirmed its first case of Ebola virus disease in Nairobi, ending months of heightened surveillance and preparedness following the spread of the deadly Bundibugyo strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uga...

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[RFI] France has decided to allocate an additional €7 million this year to combat the Ebola epidemic currently ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This comes as Kenya announced its first-ever death from the disease.

[Daba Finance] A framework agreement has been signed to finance, build, and operate a major power transmission line between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This project aims to strengthen the electricity supply to the DRC's mai...

[Nile Post] Bell Lager has been announced as the lead premium sponsor of Congolese music icon Koffi Olomide's live concert in Gulu City.

[Capital FM] Kinshasa -- NBA Africa and Quest Water Global, a socially responsible water solutions company, today (Monday) announced a multiyear collaboration to build or renovate 55 full-size and 3-on-3 basketball courts across the Democratic Republ...

[RFI] France will step up its support for efforts to control Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Saturday during a visit to a region hit by the virus. The outbreak has killed more than 4,000 p...

[Nile Post] The population of mountain gorillas in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 1,063, up from about 300 in 1990, conservation officials have announced.

[RFI] Ethiopia and Eritrea have cut diplomatic ties as a new rebel offensive grips northern Ethiopia, putting two countries that fought together during the last Tigray war on opposing sides. Ethiopia accuses its neighbour of supporting a new anti-gov...

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