Berlin to suspend new aid to Rwanda over DR Congo conflict
Germany said on Tuesday that it will suspend new aid to Rwanda over an offensive by the M23 group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that UN experts say is supported by Rwandan soldiers.
DR Congo starts countdown to end of Ebola outbreak in east
The Democratic Republic of Congo, where the deadly Ebola virus first emerged in 1976, has begun a countdown to the official end of its latest outbreak, this time in the east of the country, health authorities said Tuesday. The last patient to be treated for Ebola tested negative for a second time on Sunday, triggering […]
DR Congo postpones AstraZeneca vaccine rollout
The DR Congo will postpone its vaccination campaign using the AstraZeneca jab, following other countries taking similar precautionary measures, the government said on Saturday. The Democratic Republic of Congo had received 1.7 million doses of the vaccine against Covid-19 made by Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and was due to start its campaign on March 15. […]
DR Congo sentences 16 to death for 2019 killing of Ebola medic
Sixteen people, including a doctor, have been sentenced to death in absentia for the murder of a Cameroonian Ebola expert, lawyers said on Tuesday. Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, an epidemiologist employed by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), was gunned down in April 2019 at a work meeting at a hospital in Butembo, in North […]
Italian ambassador killed in DR Congo attack
Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was among three people killed on Monday when a UN convoy came under attack in the troubled east, DRC sources and the Italian government said. Luca Attanasio died of his wounds after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy came under gunfire near Goma while he was on […]
DR Congo reports second positive Ebola case
A second positive case of Ebola virus disease has been confirmed in the health zone of Butembo, North-Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to health authorities. The response team said the second confirmed case is a 60-year-old farmer, who died on February 10, with an epidemiological link to the first case. […]
