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The number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed the thousand. The Ministry of Health said this on Monday. With 629 deceased patients, it is the…

Presidential candidate Martin Fayulu, who lost the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has declared himself president of the country. With this he has responded to the...

Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi has been declared the winner of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was announced by the national electoral commission of the African country.

During the presidential elections in Congo, at least two deaths occurred on Sunday. A policeman and a voter were killed in an argument about alleged fraud when voting in Walungu in the east of...

An Airbus A330-200 from Brussels Airlines had double engine trouble earlier this month. On a flight from Kinshasa to Brussels first the left engine fell out and later also the judge. In both…

Because of an accident with a bus in Congo, at least 27 people were killed. The vehicle crashed on a truck in the night from Monday to Tuesday.

A Congolese cargo plane that disappeared from the radar after having delivered material for the presidential election has crashed. Seven crew members were killed.

A fire in a warehouse in the capital of Congo, Kinshasa, has destroyed thousands of voting machines and ballot boxes that were to be used during the presidential elections on 23 December, said...

The number of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo suffering from severe hunger has increased explosively as a result of the ongoing conflicts in the country. More than 13 million people no longer have enough to eat, compared to 7.7 million last year. Approximately 6 million children in Congo must be considered undernourished.

In the northeast of the Congo, five new cases of Ebola infection were registered one day. That has been confirmed by the Ministry of Health. According to the authorities, the increase is not only due to the constant danger that rebel groups form in the Beni region. The aid workers who try to stop the dreaded disease also receive insufficient cooperation from the population.

At least fifty people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday by a collision of a tanker with a bus. Both vehicles caught fire at the city of Madimba.

The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has definitely excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba as candidate for the presidential elections in December. Reason is his condemnation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) for bribery of witnesses and obstruction of justice. In June the ICC spoke to the former warlord surprisingly free of war crimes.

The Congolese authorities have given the green light for the use of four new experimental drugs against Ebola. The last outbreak of the deadly virus has so far cost the lives of dozens of people in the African country, which is about sixty times as large as the Netherlands.

The Congolese president Joseph Kabila does not stand for re-election. The controversial former Minister of the Interior Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary is taking part in the upcoming presidential election on behalf of the government coalition, said a government spokesman.

The vaccination program to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo starts Monday. That's what the Ministry of Health said on Sunday. There are 4000 doses of vaccine on the way to Mbandaka, where the first cases of infection in urban areas were detected last week. The dangerous virus infection struck earlier this month in a village about 70 kilometers to the south.

In the city of Mbandaka in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo three new cases of the infectious Ebola disease have been detected. The Ministry of Health confirms that the Ebola virus was found in the Wangata district, near the Congo River.

The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has entered a new phase. The disease has reached Mbandaka, the capital of the Equateur province. In the urban area, Ebola can penetrate much faster than in rural areas, where the disease had been observed so far.

With the discovery of a new case of the infectious Ebola disease in the city of Mbandaka in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola outbreak has entered a new phase. That is stated by the health minister of Congo, Oly Ilunga Kalenga.

The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo report that someone has died from Ebola. It is the first time that it is officially confirmed that someone has died due to the new outbreak of the deadly virus.

Two cases of highly contagious Ebola have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ten people are thought to have contracted the disease, but that is not yet certain.

The European Union is making 49.5 million euros available to combat the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For the neighboring countries of Tanzania, Rwanda and Congo-Brazzaville 10.9 million is being released, mainly for assistance to Congolese refugees.

A train accident in the province of Lualaba in south-east of the Congo has cost a total of 34 people on Sunday. The train, which mainly transported goods and fuel but also a number of passengers, drove down and slowed down. Tank wagons with gasoline cracked open and eleven of the thirteen cars flared, according to Radio Okapi.

In an accident with a boat in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 27 people drowned. The boat sank on Kasai river. There are still 54 people missing.

The UN Peace Mission has found 38 new suspected mass graves in the Kasai region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since the outbreak of an uprising in August, about eighty such graves have now been discovered.

The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have officially declared the latest ebola epidemic on Saturday. The first case of the last outbreak was established approximately two months ago.

In the region of Kasaï in the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 3300 civilians have been killed by Congolese security forces and a military militia since October. The figure comes from the Catholic Church, which is based on its own sources in the remote area on the border with Angola.

An unknown combat unit stormed a prison in Beni, northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday. As a result, eleven deaths have fallen, 930 prisoners escaped. That has revealed the governor of the province of North Kivu.

Not tens of thousands, but thousands of prisoners escaped from the main prison in Congo on Wednesday. The local authorities spoke immediately after the outbreak of fifty prisoners, but according to eyewitnesses, more than 3,000 escaped, according to the BBC. The detainees could flee the complex when armed men entered prison.

The Congolese army killed in April 164 civilians, including 45 children and seven women. This is evidenced by data from the UN mission in the country announced Wednesday.