Tag: DR Congo
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Image: Africa News 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Africa News “Dangerous gaps” remain in efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 180 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Doctors Without Borders warned Monday. 🔗 Read full article on Africa News 📰 Source: Africa News…
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Image: Africa News 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Africa News Fresh clashes during an opposition-led protest in Kinshasa have heightened political tensions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as opponents of constitutional reform vow to intensify resistance against plans they fear could pave the way for a third presidential term.…
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Image: Guardian Asia 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Guardian Asia Government urged to reconsider proposal for 1,100 Afghans, currently stranded in Qatar, who worked with US forcesDozens of US lawmakers urged the Trump administration on Thursday to roll back any plans to ship to unsafe third countries Afghan nationals who…
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Image: Africa News 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Africa News AFC/M23 rebels and the Rwandan army have committed numerous war crimes in eastern DR Congo, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. 🔗 Read full article on Africa News 📰 Source: Africa News 📅 Published: Wed, 10 Jun…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Guardian Africa Amazon and Sony among firms that may have sourced coltan, used in phones, from supply chains controlled by the M23 rebels, says Global WitnessLeading global brands including Amazon, Ericsson and Sony are “likely” to have sourced minerals linked to a…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · ⚔️ Guardian Africa Islamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinicsRebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Guardian Africa Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for ceasefire among armed groups to help avoid deaths from preventable diseaseThe death rate of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is between 30% and 50%, the World Health Organization has said,…
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Image: Africa News 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 🏥 Africa News The spread of the deadly haemorrhagic fever is unfolding a region that is at the epicentre of fighting between the army and armed groups. 🔗 Read full article on Africa News 📰 Source: Africa News 📅 Published: Wed, 27 May…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Guardian Africa There have been arson attacks on Ebola treatment centres in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, exposing the anger in a region beset by violence linked to armed rebel groups. Authorities say the number of suspected cases of Ebola has…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Guardian Africa At least 130 people thought to have been killed, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus before emergency meeting‘It’s heartbreaking’: panic in eastern DRC over return of EbolaThe director general of the World Health Organization has said he is deeply concerned about the…