The Latest Breaking News from DRC

Amid threats from mpox and new unknown viruses, how do epidemiologists track pathogens before a health crisis begins?

Interior Minister Shabani Lukoo says 24 people were shot dead while others suffocated in the crowd.

Border regions in countries neighbouring DRC raise alert levels and screening measures as the mpox virus spreads.

Prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of Congo are calling for 50 defendants, including three Americans, to face the death penalty over what the army says was a coup attempt in May.

Response to virus made harder by lack of knowledge and humanitarian crisis that has forced people into crowded displacement camps

Paul Kagame started his fourth term as Rwanda’s president in August 2024. He first became president in April 2000. However, as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, he has been the country’s de facto head since his rebel forces ended the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

New, potentially more deadly strain of virus is rapidly spreading in Africa and has been discovered in Asia and Europe.

If the world has learned anything from the Covid pandemic, it is that new viruses must be stopped in their tracks, says science journalist Debora MacKenzie

The ambiguous and often tumultuous relations between Uganda and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have made headlines in recent months. In a July 2024 report, the UN Group of Experts on the DRC stated that Ugandan army and intelligence officials were providing active support to the M23 rebel group.