The three major plague pandemics are among the deadliest outbreaks in human history ... continue to this day, with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar and Peru being the most endemic ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and ...

The status of one of the world’s most important copper mines remains clouded in uncertainty, more than a week after seismic ...

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...

Torrential rains triggered devastating floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Sud Kivu province, specifically impacting Kasaba village. The Kasaba river overflowed, unleashing a destructive ...

The presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo met in Qatar on Tuesday ... country that is at the epicenter of the mpox outbreak. Another flight carrying the rest of the 200,000 ...

People in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are affected by decades of conflict leading to outbreaks of preventable diseases and the internal displacement of as many as 7 ...