A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

An international festival promoting peace that was due to take place in violence-racked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been called off for security reasons, organisers said on Thursday.

Three genera of African rodent, Graphiurus (African dormice), Cricetomys (giant pouched rat) and Funisciurus (African striped squirrel), have been named as likely reservoirs of the mpox virus.

The Southern African Development Community has called for an extraordinary summit to discuss the political unrest in ...

South Africa’s national defence force is not just a consumer of money – it earns income from peace support services to the ...

Those named in the report include children, relatives and associates of three prominent African families - the Nguemas in ...

President of the Burundi Senate MP Emmanuel Sinzohagera, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Congo Sama Lakonde Jean Michael, President Dusemat of the Democratic Republic of ...

When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra - one of the most famous in Africa - in 1994, they had so ...

Democratic Republic of Congo is set to receive nearly $2.9 billion in financing over the next three years after International ...

The IMF and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to two new loan programs that would provide the central African country with close to $3 billion, the Washington-based institution said ...