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About 50 hippos have died of anthrax poisoning in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, the oldest national park in all of Africa.

The humanitarian consequences of Congo’s successive crises and protracted cycles of instability are dire, as each shock weakens the coping potential of an already beleaguered population.

This is the tenth Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the disease was first discovered in the country in 1976 and has the potential to become the deadliest.

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

Six million have died, and more than six million are displaced after decades of fighting and the ensuing humanitarian crisis in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawing in ...

The world’s largest population of Grauer’s gorilla, also known as eastern lowland gorillas, have plummeted in the midst of a nearly two-decade civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider regional war.

A mystery illness has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A "poisoning of a water source" may be a cause, the WHO says.

Pope Francis blesses attendees as he meets with victims of the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the Apostolic Nunciature in Kinshasa.

Use maps and graphs to find out more about the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was recently ranked bottom of the UN's Human Development Index.

There are 25.6 million people who continue to face crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the latest Integrated Food Security ...