Aid teams from the UN World Health Organization ( WHO) “cannot move freely to support the hospitals, even ambulances cannot ...

"It wasn't Guinea-worm disease. After receiving treatment, he was able to resume his life as a fisherman. I was very proud to have helped him." In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the elimination ...

British foreign secretary laments lack of global attention to crises in Africa compared with conflicts in other regions - ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

24 (UPI) --Advances being made by the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic ... Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC, MONUSCO. The group's advances are primarily taking place in the ...

Advertisement He also urged the Congolese diaspora around the world "to mobilize in support of our compatriots in North Kivu, our Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Supreme ...

Japan has sent the Democratic Republic of the Congo 50,000 doses ... has been spreading in the DRC and elsewhere. The World Health Organization in August declared a public health emergency of ...

Rebels appear to be edging closer to taking control of the key city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

After days of intense fighting, the humanitarian situation in Goma, capital of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has reached alarming levels - with humanitarian needs now massive and ...

As UN agencies reported "relative calm" on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces ...

Greg Ramm, country director for the Save the Children humanitarian organization in Congo ... Roughly the size of Western Europe, the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to 100 million people ...

the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and that "external forces" in the region immediately withdraw. The council demands came just hours after Rwandan-backed M23 said they had ...