Democratic Republic of Congo

The death toll from a plane that crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday morning has risen to…

KINSHASA - Health authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo will introduce a Johnson & Johnson Ebola vaccine in November in the country’s eastern provinces, to counter the current…

Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and his prime minister named a new government for the first time since winning an election last December, a statement from Prime Minister Illunga…

LONDON - Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two experimental drugs showed survival rates of as much as…

GOMA - Democratic Republic of Congo registered a one-day record of 27 new confirmed Ebola cases on Sunday, raising last week’s number of cases to 126, the biggest…

KINSHASA - Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi called for national reconciliation on Thursday as he became Democratic Republic of Congo’s president, succeeding Joseph Kabila in Congo’s first transfer of…

South Africa and Kenya have joined the regional grouping Southern African Development Community (SADC) in congratulating Felix Tshisekedi as president-elect in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

KINSHASA - Opposition candidates in this weekend’s presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo demanded on Tuesday that the electoral board deactivate SIM cards in voting machines…

A month before his scheduled departure after nearly two decades as Congo’s president, Joseph Kabila received a procession of foreign reporters at his heavily guarded riverside palace for…