It is a descendant of the deadlier clade 1a strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox , which is estimated to kill up to 10 ...

Muslims in a city recently captured by Rwanda-backed fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo face a more ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

Nairobi (AFP) – Burundi has "accelerated" the withdrawal of some troops from DR Congo, a senior military source told AFP Thursday, as the UN warned the small Great Lakes nation was seeing its ...

There are fears the escalation of fighting between troops and militias in the vast mineral-rich region could trigger a repeat of the devastating Congo wars of the 1990s and 2000s that drew in ...

Banker Matondo Arnold said he had already sent his family to Brazzaville after the rebels seized Goma, eastern Congo's biggest city, in late January. "We never imagined Goma could fall," he said ...

some draped in the Congo flag, trampled on the flags of France, the US, EU and Poland. DR Congo accuses Rwanda of backing the M23 rebels – a claim Kigali has consistently denied. It is hard to ...

Burundi is dealing with its biggest influx of refugees in 25 years as families flee the escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations refugee agency said. Rwandan ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President Felix Tshisekedi's office claimed it was actually still controlled by ...

Lake Kivu in eastern DR Congo is bustling again with cargo and passenger boats. The lake was quiet for almost a month after rebels captured the port cities of Goma and Bukavu. What would happen if ...