African Great Lakes to protect and assist regionally displaced

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Uganda declares Ebola outbreak after 1 person dies of rare Sudan strain

Sudan strain’s case fatality rates ranged from 41% to 100% in previous outbreaks

Zimbabwe nationalises mines to check high inflation

Rainforest map to assert rights

Meningitis outbreak begins in West Africa

Democratic Republic of Congo, WHO grapple with both Ebola, COVID-19

United Nations' health arm runs short of $83 million to fight Ebola outbreak

Cold comfort for 400,000 Burundi refugees

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Progress in measles elimination has got stalled, says WHO

Developing countries mostly hit. More than 145,000 people died of the disease in 2013

Diversifying economy, focusing on climate resilience: Congo can reduce rural poverty by 40%, says World Bank

A $245 million investment in climate-smart agriculture can increase crop yields by 50% and cut emissions by 12 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent

British king acknowledges colonial atrocities in Kenya — here’s what could happen next

Public acknowledgements of colonial legacy in east Africa by Britain, German and Belgium can be classified under broad framework of transitional …

Protecting Congo’s forests: New timber parks will help fight illegal logging

Expansion of east African road and rail networks could threaten one of the world’s richest biodiversity areas

Democratic Republic of Congo invites Big Oil to world’s second-largest rainforest

The DRC government gave the green signal to auction 16 oil blocks in Cuvette Centrale, a sensitive ecosystem in the Congo rainforest, last week

Congo: World’s 2nd-largest rainforest continues to vanish with half a million hectares lost in 2022, says report

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, which accounts for 60% of the rainforest, has a rapidly growing population which has increasing food and …

Democratic Republic of the Congo declares meningitis outbreak

High case fatality ratio of 50% reported in Tshopo province; 261 cases, 129 deaths reported so far 

Book Excerpt: It is the blood of the Congo that is powering our tech boom

Siddharth Kara’s new book sears you to the depths of your being with its description of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the …

How Africa’s porous borders make it difficult to contain Ebola

'The surveillance team has to enter the mind of a typical villager from the DRC who knows they’re infected and is trying to escape to …

More research, investment needed to protect Congo basin peatlands, finds report

Peatlands face threat from hydrocarbon exploration, hydroelectric dams & climate change

Oly Ilunga: Congo’s very own ‘Deep Throat’?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s health minister resigned on July 22, alleging that he was under strong pressure to introduce an anti-…

Giving birth to a poverty-free world

Reduction of poverty among children is central to a world without extreme poverty