Vaccines to help curb an escalating mpox outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring countries may still not reach the central African country for months even as the World Health Organization (WHO) considers following Africa’s top public health agency in declaring the outbreak an emergency. On Tuesday, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention declared a public health … Read more
NEW DELHI: Three Americans have been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for their alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt. The men were apprehended following a shootout in the capital, Kinshasa, and are believed to be CIA operatives, though the US government has denied any official involvement.Video footage circulating on social media … Read more
NEW DELHI: The United States has strongly criticized the escalating violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and has attributed it to the M23 armed group, which it claims is receiving support from Rwanda. In a statement issued by the US State Department, M23 was urged to immediately cease hostilities … Read more
KINSHASA: The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, was to be sworn in for a second five-year term on Saturday after sweeping elections which the opposition has branded a sham, calling for protests.With tensions simmering in the vast nation’s volatile eastern provinces, the 60-year-old president known as “Fatshi” has picked Kinshasa’s 80,000-capacity … Read more
KINSHASA: DR Congo‘s President Felix Tshisekedi has won a second term in office with a landslide victory, according to provisional results announced Sunday, in a vote opposition leaders have dismissed as a “sham”.Provisional results from the single-round presidential ballot, declared by the country’s electoral commission Ceni, showed that Tshisekedi had won 73 percent of the … Read more
KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo voters were waiting on Friday for the first results from presidential and legislative elections after an unscheduled day-long ballot extension that prompted some opposition candidates to cry foul and call for a rerun. The vote will determine whether President Felix Tshisekedi serves a second term after a first five years … Read more