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The World Health Organization (WHO) has disclosed that Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak may soon be over after the final patient was discharged from care over the weekend, with no new infections detected since September 25. The development marks the start of a 42-day monitoring period, after which the outbreak can be officially declared over if…
Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila made his first public appearance on Wednesday since...
More than 200 health facilities in eastern Congo are running out of essential medicines as...
Five United Nations police officers from the Republic of the Congo have died after their armored...
The death toll from rebel violence in eastern Congo has gone up, with officials confirming that 89 civilians were killed in two separate attacks this week. Authorities reported that 71 people lost their...
At least 60 people were brutally killed overnight in eastern Congo when suspected Islamic State–linked rebels struck a village during a burial ceremony, an official confirmed. The massacre occurred...
Congo’s health officials are sounding the alarm after a cluster of Ebola-like illnesses claimed multiple lives in Kasai province. On Thursday, Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba confirmed that 28...
U.S. President Donald Trump has again claimed credit for ending the conflict in eastern Congo, boasting that his intervention stopped what he called “a vicious war.” But on the ground, residents,...
The rebel movement M23, accused of atrocities in eastern Congo, has pushed back against fresh allegations, rejecting a new rights report that links it to a string of massacres. In a statement Wednesday...
At least 140 civilians were killed in eastern Congo in July, reportedly by Rwanda-backed rebels, in what a human rights organization has described as “summary executions.” Human Rights Watch...
The United States has imposed sanctions on an armed group accused of exploiting mineral wealth in eastern Congo. According to a senior U.S. official speaking anonymously ahead of Tuesday’s announcement,...
In one of the deadliest waves of violence in recent years, at least 319 people were killed in a series of massacres carried out by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo, according to a Wednesday statement...

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