60 killed in DR Congo train accident
Tweet Kinshasa, April 24 (IANS) At least 60 people were killed and some 60 others wounded when a train derailed in the southeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), authorities said...
View ArticleDR Congo: Growing Displacement of People in Katanga Provinc
Thursday, 30 January 2014, 3:09 pm Press Release: UN Concerned about Growing Displacement of People in DR Congo’s Katanga Province New York, Jan 29 2014 - More than 400,000 people have been displaced...
View ArticlePresident Zuma sends condolences to the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
(Source: Department of International Relations and Co-operation - Republic of South Africa) Press Release 24 April 2014 President Zuma sends condolences to the Democratic Republic of the Congo On...
View Article82 child soldiers rescued in DR Congo: UN
Published August 16, 2013AFP Peacekeepers operating as part of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission for the Congo (MONUSCO) wait in Munigi on July 19, 2013. More than 80 children, some as young as...
View ArticleNo: 368, 29 November 2014, Press Release Regarding the Terrorist Attacks...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey) We deeply regret the recent terrorist attacks perpetrated in the city of Beni of the North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic...
View ArticleDidier Reynders offers his condolences after train crash in Democratic...
(Source: FPS Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of Belgium) It is with great sadness that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of...
View ArticleWHO concerned about growth of Ebola virus disease outbreak in Democratic...
Epidemiological situation WHO said that Between 2 and 9 September 2014, there have been 31 more cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), increasing the...
View ArticleDozens of child soldiers rescued in DR Congo, says UN
The UN says more than 80 children recruited as soldiers by an armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been rescued in the past few days. Some of the children are as young as eight years of...
View ArticleMSF has vaccinated over 287,000 children against measles in four provinces
Since the beginning of the year, a measles epidemic has been ravaging Katanga Province in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
View ArticleColumbia’s ICAP Makes Strides in HIV Services in the Democratic Republic of...
(Source: ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health) ICAP at the Mailman School of Public Health has been working with the Ministries of Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since...
View ArticleMSF releases report on shocking humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic...
(Source: MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières) Nyirambabazi, 30, lives in Kahe camp and is pregnant for the first time. Neighbours transported her from Kazuba to the hospital St Benoit of Kitchanga, it took...
View ArticleDozens of child soldiers rescued in DR Congo, UN reports
The UN reports that more than 80 children recruited as soldiers by an armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been rescued in the past few days. Some of the children are as young as 8...
View ArticleChild soldiers rescued in DR Congo
The UN reports that more than 80 children recruited as soldiers by an armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been rescued in the past few days. Some of the children are as young as 8...
View ArticleEbola: Democratic Republic of Congo says its outbreak is over
A three-month Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended after claiming at least 49 lives, the country's health minister says. Felix Kabange said no new cases had been...
View ArticleAs from 1 January 2015, Latvian Visas will also be Issued in Lubumbashi in...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia) email this link Unofficial Translation Amendments to the agreement between the Republic of Latvia and the Kingdom of Belgium on visa...
View ArticleEpidemiological update: Outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa and...
(Source: ECDC - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) 05 Sep 2014 On 8 August 2014, the World Health Organization declared the West Africa Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of...
View ArticleAid groups overstretched by Congo crisis
Faced with a dearth of United Nations peacekeepers, lack of funding and competition from other global crises, relief agencies are struggling to contain a growing humanitarian disaster in the Democratic...
View ArticleGlobal Campaign to Eliminate Measles Stalls
Lisa Schlein GENEVA— The World Health Organization (WHO) says the global campaign to eliminate measles is in trouble as progress toward that goal has stalled. WHO reports about 145,700 children died...
View ArticleWHO: No link between Ebola outbreaks in west Africa and Democratic Republic...
The Zaire strain of the virus is indigenous in the country. Ebola first emerged in 1976 in almost simultaneous outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan)....
View ArticleEbola Outbreaks Unrelated In West Africa And Democratic Republic Of Congo
If there can be any good news coming out of the African continent regarding this year’s Ebola outbreaks, we have one positive report this morning. The World Health Organization has just confirmed that...
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