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At least 7,000 have died in Congo this year, country's PM tells UN's human rights council
CBC/Radio-Canada
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February 24, 2025
Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with combatants and civilians among the...
Mystery illness kills more than 50 people in Congo DR
APA
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An unknown disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to doctors, APA reports citing Sky News. The World Health Organisation's (WHO) Africa office said the first outbreak was discovered in the town...
Over 400 infected as deadly illness kills 53 in Congo
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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February 25, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that an unidentified illness has claimed the lives of 53 people in a northwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with many deaths occurring within 48 hours of symptom onset. The WHO has...
The Human Dimension of the Conflict in the DRC
The News Chronicle
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February 24, 2025
The almost eternal cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is fuelling widespread violence, mass displacement and extreme human suffering in the country and its neighbours like Burundi. With violence surging in Eastern DRC...
Mystery illness kills more than 50 people in Congo after kids eat bat
CBS News
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February 25, 2025 / 7:38 AM EST / CBS/AP DR Congo humanitarian crisis: What to know What to know about the humanitarian crisis in Democratic Republic of the Congo 04:43 An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in the northwest of the...
Mystery Illness Claims Over 50 Lives in Congo, WHO Investigates
Novinite
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An unidentified illness has claimed the lives of more than 50 people in the northwestern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the World Health Organization (WHO) confirming the outbreak on Monday. The disease, which first emerged on...
Mystery Illness Kills Dozens in Northwestern Congo
Tasnim News Agency
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February 25, 2025
The outbreak, which began on Jan. 21 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has resulted in 419 reported cases, including 53 deaths. The rapid progression of symptoms has raised alarm among health officials. “The interval between the onset of...
7,000+ killed in eastern DR Congo since January
Cameroon Concord News
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February 24, 2025
More than 7,000 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo since January, Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka said on Monday. Armed members of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group, who...
Mystery Illness Kills 50 In Congo: Officials Raise Alarm As Fatalities Occur Within Hours After Symptoms Appear
Medical Daily
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February 25, 2025
A mysterious illness sweeping through the Democratic Republic of Congo has infected at least 419 people and claimed 50 lives since the start of the year, officials report. The disease, believed to have entered a second outbreak in February, is...
Eastern DRC Conflict Sparks Humanitarian Catastrophe as Civic Freedoms Collapse
News Ghana
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March 10, 2025
A brutal escalation of violence in eastern DRC has plunged the region into a deepening humanitarian crisis, with over 8,500 civilians killed since January 2025 and millions displaced as the M23 rebel group tightens its grip on strategic...
Alphamin Bisie Mining, a Company Acting With Impunity in Walikale-Congo
KT Press Rwanda
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March 16, 2025
This area, covered with lush forests and savannas ideal for Indigenous communities’ agropastoral activities, has all the makings of an Earthly paradise. This has especially been the case since strategic minerals such as cassiterite, coltan...
‘People need a break’: DRC conflict reignites dark memories of Congo wars
Al Jazeera
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In parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), communities are gearing up for war or fleeing to safety amid the advance of M23 rebels, who captured the key eastern cities of Goma and Bukavu in recent weeks, leaving devastation in their...
How DR Congo's Tutsis become foreigners in their own country
BBC
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February 22, 2025
Wedaeli ChibelushiBBC News Tutsis have long been advocating for better treatment in DR Congo The notorious M23 rebel group is wreaking havoc in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing the region's two biggest cities in a deadly uprising...
What We Know About Illnesses That Have Sickened Over 400 People and Killed More Than 50 in Congo
NTD
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February 27, 2025
KINSHASA, Congo—Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick. The outbreaks in two distant villages in Congo’s Equateur Province began...
More than 50 people killed, over 400 sickened by mystery illnesses in Congo
ABC 7 WWSB - Florida
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February 27, 2025
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick. The outbreaks in two distant villages in Congo’s Equateur province...
Congo bans Al Jazeera over its interview with a key rebel leader and threatens journalists
The Independent
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January 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Cross-Continental African Tech Ventures
Africa.com
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March 5, 2025
Eric Osiakwan On January 29, 2025, Nigerian remittance fintech LemFi announced the acquisition of Irish currency exchange platform Buttercrane in a strategic move to expand its services across Europe. The deal, approved by the Central Bank of...
Africa File, March 13, 2025: Looming Civil Wars in Ethiopia, South Sudan Threaten to Plunge Horn into Crisis; Renewed Peace Talks in DRC as M23 Advances
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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Contributors: John Reece and Nick Markiewicz Data Cutoff: March 13, 2025, at 10 a.m. To receive the Africa File via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on Twitter, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. The Africa File provides regular analysis and...
DRC files complaint against Apple over alleged illegal miner...
Modern Ghana
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a criminal case against European subsidiaries of tech giant Apple, accusing the company of illicitly using "blood minerals" in its supply chain. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alleges that Apple...
How Far Will Rwanda Go in Congo?
Foreign Affairs
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March 3, 2025
In 1963, nearly three dozen newly independent African nations met in Addis Ababa to establish the Organization of African Unity. Among the core principles they embraced was the inviolability of existing, colonial-era national borders. Failure to...