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Routine healthcare has been severely disrupted in communities hit hardest by Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, where fear of infection and pressure on hospitals are stymieing pediatric immunizations and discouraging patients from seeking maternity and other basic care.
A senior member of Congo’s ruling party was beaten to death after taking part in a radio programme to raise awareness about the Ebola outbreak, a party representative said on Monday. The incident happened on Sunday in Butembo, North Kivu province, which has recently become a hotspot in the ongoing Ebola outbreak. Marie-Celestin Karondwa, acting president of the UDPS party’s federal executive committee in Butembo and a party spokesperson, was attacked by residents of his neighbourhood after...
A US mining company is using artificial intelligence to search for critical minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Congo began vaccinating health care workers against Ebola on Saturday in Bunia, the epicenter of the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease in the country’s history.
A presidential ordinance of 13 September 2026 created the organising committee for Congo's national dialogue, with every member appointed by the head of state. The post Congo’s National Dialogue Gets an Organising Committee Appointed Entirely by the President appeared first on The Rio Times.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said transmission was declining in the hardest-hit areas of Ituri province, while South Kivu has reported no new cases since May.
M23 controls large parts of eastern DRC as Kinshasa and Kigali remain divided over security and sovereignty.
A Brussels court referred the firm and 13 others to criminal trial on 31 August. Civil parties say US$60 of each passport fee went to a Dubai company. The post Belgium Sends Semlex to Trial Over Congo Passport Fees appeared first on The Rio Times.
Intruders backed by soldiers are again operating illegally at one of the world’s biggest sources of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kinshasa plans to charge for access to the geological information that guides billions of dollars of exploration, treating it as strategic national infrastructure. The post Congo Has Worked Out That the Map Is Worth More Than the Mine appeared first on The Rio Times.
World Food Programme Country Director David Stevenson said the response to Ebola in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo must go beyond health care alone.
Mining tycoon Robert Friedland said he’s fielding “unconventional interest,” including from US Big Tech, in Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.’s fast-expanding copper exploration project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, highlighting growing anxieties about future supplies of the key metal.