40 dead as passenger boat capsizes in western DR Congo Tragedy occurred on Lulonga River near Boyeka village Passengers, mainly traders, returning from local market to Mbandaka In a devastating incident in western Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 40 people have lost their lives as a passenger boat, a wooden riverboat known as a … Read more
Over 52 bodies recovered from the Congo River after a tragic boat capsizing. Concerns that the death toll may rise as many individuals are still missing. The boat, carrying over 300 passengers, capsized near Mbandaka in the DRC. Over 52 bodies have been retrieved from the Congo River following a tragic boat capsizing that occurred … Read more
The government and M23 rebels have been fighting for months. The latest violence happened just five days after the two sides agreed to stop fighting. At least 300 people were killed last week in the village of Kishishe in North Kivu province. The area is still in rebel hands, so it is hard for the … Read more
More than 250 of the 822 inmates who escaped from a prison in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been apprehended. The armed forces are still looking for remaining inmates from the Kakwangura central prison. Prison was stormed by armed men on Wednesday, killing two police officers and injuring 15 others. More than 250 … Read more
Congo’s government and the UN peacekeeping force said that soldiers returning from leave opened fire at a border post. At least two people died and 15 others were hurt. The mission has been under pressure from days of protests, which have left 20 people dead since Monday. On Sunday, Congo’s government and the UN peacekeeping … Read more
Congo Basin traps billions of tonnes of greenhouse emissions. Drilling might unleash 5.8 billion tonnes of carbon. Congo’s government says it would hold oil firms to environmental standards. On Thursday, 30 oil and gas blocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be auctioned, opening areas of the world’s second-largest rainforest to drilling that might release … Read more
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels tried to storm the area surrounding the jail in Beni. The attack had aimed to liberate ADF commandos. Six civilian lives were lost in a raid earlier this week. Congolese soldiers have thwarted a rebel attack on a prison in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said Saturday, after … Read more
Cecile Bakindo is a traffic police officer in Kinshasa. she solicited no money for doing her job. She has become a local celebrity for being honest. At dawn in a working-class district of Kinshasa, a driver slows to a halt and hands a fistful of small bills to a traffic cop. The sight is common … Read more
Suspected rebels kill at least nine in twin attacks in eastern DR Congo. Militants from the ADF group killed six civilians in town of Beni. The same night, militants also killed at least three people in a village in Ituri. Suspected rebels have killed at least nine people in twin attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, … Read more
More than 6,000 monkeypox cases confirmed in 58 countries. Europe is the epicentre of the outbreak. After March 11 that many countries seemed to wake up to the danger. The World Health Organization will reconvene its monkeypox experts to decide if the worsening outbreak now constitutes a global public health emergency, its chief said Wednesday. … Read more
Pope Francis cancels trip to DR Congo and Sudan. The trip got cancelled because of Pope Francis’s knee pain. The pontiff suffers chronic arthritis in his knee, according to Vatican sources. Pope Francis has said he is “greatly disappointed” he cannot make a planned visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan on Saturday due … Read more
Civil society officials blame Allied Democratic Forces for the killings. The raids come despite a months-long military operation. The ADF is claimed by the Islamic State group as its Central African offshoot. ADF rebels killed 14 civilians in two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said Sunday, blaming the Allied Democratic Forces … Read more
The number of out-of-school children has nearly tripled in six years. 78.2 million are estimated to be completely out of school due to conflicts and emergencies. 54 percent of these are girls, according to the United Nations’ Education Cannot Wait report. The number of children forced out of school or whose education has been … Read more
The tooth is placed in a casket draped in the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Chief Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw says legal action delivered “justice” to Lumumba’s family. Belgium and the Congo have endured enduring sources of pain over the killing. Belgium handed over the last remains of slain Congolese leader Patrice … Read more
Two children killed in school shelling in Democratic Republic of Congo were buried among banana trees. Biruma, a village in North Kivu province, caught in cross-fire between rebels and government forces. The DRC accuses Rwanda of abetting the rebels, a charge that Rwanda denies. The fighting has worsened relations between the DRC and Rwanda. Villagers … Read more
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army accuses Rwanda of shelling a school. Two children aged six and seven were killed-the Congolese army. Rwanda denies firing rockets into the DRC. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army said Friday that Rwanda had shelled a school on its territory, killing two children, in what it called a “war crime” … Read more
Belgium’s King Philippe visits the Democratic Republic of Congo. Visit comes two years after he expressed “deepest regrets” for the “wounds”. The visit comes in a context of violence in North Kivu, where the DRC accuses Rwanda. Belgium King Philippe undertakes a historic visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, an area unjustly abused by … Read more
According to local sources, soldiers patrolling the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo discovered 17 decomposing remains along a river, some of which were beheaded. The troops came across the corpses on Thursday by the Ituri river, in the Irumu territory of Ituri province, according to local Red Cross representative David Beiza. Beiza added that some … Read more
Forced to escape her home, 62-years-old Agathe fears never seeing peace once more as she recounts the violence she has confronted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. But the abuse Agathe has suffered inside the territory of Masisi in North-Kivu province is not with the aid of rebels who’ve terrorized the location for over … Read more
Several demonstrations have taken place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after the shooting of a black man by an officer of a white police department, according to local media. As a result of the Grand Rapids Police Department’s decision to disclose numerous video clips relating to an officer’s confrontation with Patrick Lyoya earlier this month, including … Read more
LAKE KIVU, Rwanda – The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance erupted violently, sending tremors rumbling through the water beneath them. It was not the lava shooting from Mount Nyiragongo last May that spooked them, but the enormous concentrations of potentially explosive … Read more
KAMPALA, Dec 7, 2021 (AFP) – Uganda announced Tuesday that it had detected cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant in travellers coming into the country, the first infections to be reported in East Africa. The cases were detected in people screened at Entebbe International Airport who flew in from five different countries, Ugandan medical authorities said … Read more
Flights from Pakistan and 13 other countries, including Liberia, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Zambia, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and South Africa, will be suspended until 23:59 hrs on July 21, 2021, according to the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority. Cargo flights, as well as business and charter flights, … Read more
