Vaccine campaign for world’s largest measles outbreak
More than 800,000 children are to be targeted for vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a measles outbreak
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The children sent to a ‘holiday camp’ never to come back
A court in Belgium is investigating an orphanage for alleged abduction and trafficking of children from the Democratic Republic of
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Search for escaped Ebola patients
One police officer was killed and four Ebola patients are missing after the treatment centre they were in was attacked
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DR Congo marks six months since Ebola outbreak began
Today marks six months since the declaration of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There have
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Historic day as Tshisekedi is sworn in as DR Congo president
The new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, has been sworn into office. He told supporters at
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Nearly 900 killed in ethnic clashes last month, UN says
Ethnic violence in western Democratic Republic of Congo left at least 890 dead over just three days last month, the
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Google and Facebook criticised over DR Congo ads
A US professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is accusing technology giants Facebook and Google of promoting false information
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UK advises against DR Congo travel
The UK has changed its travel advice to British citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the fire overnight
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2,600 sexual violence victims treated in one Congolese town
Doctors without Borders says it has treated 2,600 victims of sexual violence in just one town since May last year.
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Violence spiralling to alarming levels in Eastern Congo
“We are deeply concerned by the rapidly escalating and increasingly dangerous violence in Eastern DR Congo. In Beni in North
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Hunger levels double in Congo as violence intensifies
15 million women, men and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are without enough food to eat, up
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140 children killed in Democratic Republic of Congo since June, urgent response needed says World Vision UK
More than 100 children have been killed in combat since June in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and an
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