More research, investment needed to protect Congo basin peatlands, finds report

Peatlands face threat from hydrocarbon exploration, hydroelectric dams & climate change

Oly Ilunga: Congo’s very own ‘Deep Throat’?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s health minister resigned on July 22, alleging that he was under strong pressure to introduce an anti-…

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Giving birth to a poverty-free world

Reduction of poverty among children is central to a world without extreme poverty  

Global warning: Upsurge of plague in Congo

World human plague cases lowest in 30 years, but WHO warns it remains a particularly “formidable epidemic disease”  

Congo reports biggest mpox outbreak with first sexually transmitted cases in the world: WHO

As many as 22 of country's 26 provinces reported cases, total suspected cases almost three times the previous highest recorded in 2020

Africa’s third COVID-19 wave may be its worst, warns WHO

The surge during the current wave can surpass the peak of the last one by early July

Killing spree

Electric vehicles have a dark side too: Blood batteries and child labour

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country that is among the poorest on the planet, is paying a heavy price for the global green energy …

Ebola in Uganda, and the dynamics of a new and different outbreak

The 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the massive West African outbreak in 2014 and 2015 share a devastating economic impact

UK company accused of bribing opponents of oil exploration in Congo

Global Witness says that huge amounts were paid to a military officer to torture locals and opponents

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency

The declaration was made after case was registered in Goma city, which shares a border with Rwanda

Lessons from the DRC’s 10th Ebola epidemic: the people may know best

A group of researchers studied different ways that local communities and the Riposte approached Ebola prevention, treatment and after-care.

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

At the beginning of March the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced that the last Ebola patient had been discharged from a …

Bad blood

By 2050, half a million kids would be born with sickle cell anaemia

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How COVID-19 affected informal cross-border trade between Uganda and DRC

Uncertain supplies and speculative behaviour led to increasing and fluctuating price

Satellite data alerts help stop Africa forest cover loss: Study

Tree felling dropped by an average of 18 per cent in Africa relative to the average 2011–2016 levels

Protecting Congo’s forests: New timber parks will help fight illegal logging

Expansion of east African road and rail networks could threaten one of the world’s richest biodiversity areas

Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes

The viral disease burden in Africa is largely underestimated and the rVSV-ZEBOV is a much-needed vaccine in the fight against Ebola

Volcano threat spurs mass evacuation in Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands started fleeing Goma city in DR Congo on May 27 after a second warning

Deep in the jungle, scientists explore the links between the Congo and climate change

Researchers aim to understand how the world’s second-largest rainforest is responding to—and influencing—global warming

Sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers in DRC: Fatherless children speak for first time about the pain of being abandoned

One in every two mothers were under the age of 18 when they conceived

Monkeypox in Nigeria: Why the disease needs intense management

The disease can spread quickly and in previous outbreaks one of 10 people have died.

Outbreaks of measles: compounding challenges in the DRC

Weak spot of prevalent strategy: Accessibility of routine preventive health services