Violence and road blockages have made it impossible to transport people and vital supplies to medical facilities.

KOLWEZI, LUALABA PROVINCE, DRC, 9 June 2025 — On Friday, June 13, during the closing session of the Governors’ Conference in Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, His Excellency President Félix Tshisekedi will ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) suspects that poisoning or meningitis could explain a mysterious illness that has reportedly killed 53 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Subsequently, outbreaks and sporadic cases have been reported in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial ... fight against the bubonic plague. Its roots go back to the first ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo — The Kinshasa-based National Centre for Epidemiological Intelligence seems a world away from the mega city's notoriously chaotic streets. Although unassuming ...

Map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, showing location of Kwango ... The DRC, one of the world's poorest countries, has in recent months been at the epicentre of an outbreak of mpox, with more ...

A health team organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) has been sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate a disease outbreak ... care. Map of the Democratic ...

Johannesburg — The Democratic Republic of Congo, at the epicenter of a global health emergency declared over a still-growing mpox outbreak ... militia groups that plague Congo.

Ituri is one of only a handful of places in the world – including Madagascar and Peru - where plague cases continue to be reported. The latest outbreak differs from previous ones because both bubonic ...

Clade 1, formally clade 1 MPXV, was first seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and is now also present ... as they share a border with the DRC. A map shows Clade 1 mpox risk with an image ...