Record 28 million people face acute hunger in conflict-ravaged Congo
Twenty-eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a record for the country, driven by an escalating conflict between the government and Rwandan-backed rebels in the ...
The News & Advance1d
Lynchburg remembers Ota Benga on 20th anniversary of memorial committee
At its 20th anniversary celebration, the International Ota Benga Memorial Committee highlighted the hard work that has gone ...
Congo rebel leader says sanctions or minerals deal with the US won’t stop fighting in the east
The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...
Burundi sees its largest number of refugees arriving in decades during Congo's fighting
The United Nations says Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the ...
La Croix6d
In eastern DR Congo, raped women remain the war’s invisible victims
It’s one story among too many. Another woman, raped—used as a weapon of war in an endless conflict in Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. To reach Chegera, a village in Kabare ...
The Standard13d
Families sent home to ruins of east DR Congo conflict
When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the ...
Southern African bloc to withdraw troops from Congo in phases
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...
CBS News19d
Mystery disease in Congo may be from poisoned water source, WHO says. Here's what to know.
A mystery illness that has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to from a ... it "should be fairly easy to contain." People typically get malaria by being bitten ...
CBC.ca23d
Rwanda calls Canada's export permit, business suspension over Congo war 'shameful'
Rwanda said on Tuesday that Canada's position on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was "shameful," adding that measures announced by Ottawa against Kigali would not solve the ...
ABC News23d
CDC says it is monitoring mysterious deadly disease in Congo
At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms and 53 have ... disease that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. "CDC is monitoring ...
UN News Centre23d
Almost 80,000 flee DR Congo amid fighting, sexual violence: UNHCR
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), insecurity and horrific sexual violence ... with “hundreds of thousands of people on the move”. Close to 80,000 people have fled armed clashes ...