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At the Bukavu hospital, which serves as a clinic for gynaecological and obstetric care, he lives under the permanent protection of UN peacekeepers. (Photo: AP)

Denis Mukwege: Healer of DR Congo's wounds becomes Nobel laureate

Nobel Peace Prize co-winner had been repeatedly nominated for work with gang rape victims from conflicts that have...

5 Oct 2018 3:25 PM IST

2-month-old Lahya Kathembo is carried by a nurse waiting for test results at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. Lahya became an orphan in a day. Her mother succumbed to Ebola on a Saturday morning. By sunset her father was dead. Her tests came back negative for Ebola. (Photo: AP)

Over 2,000 people dead in DR Congo Ebola outbreak: WHO

The organisation added that most of the cases were reported in North Kivu province.

30 Aug 2019 5:25 PM IST

Dr. Guyauma Ngoyi Mwamba, centre, representative of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Expanded Program on Immunization, is administered with a vaccine during a vaccination campaign in Mbandaka, Congo Monday, May 21, 2018. Congos health minister says a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern town where the outbreak began, as the country begins a vaccination campaign. (Photo: AP)

WHO's Congo Ebola plan assumes 100-300 cases over three months

The plan also sets out targets for the disease response, including that 100 percent of new cases should come from known...

30 May 2018 9:22 AM IST

If superspreading had been completely under control about two-thirds of Ebola cases could have been avoided (Photo: AFP)

Mass vaccinations can't prevent Ebola outbreaks

Ebola virus outbreak control depends on surveillance and the isolation of cases, according to the study.

11 May 2018 8:26 AM IST

Some 28,000 people were infected with Ebola in the outbreak which began in late 2013 and continued through last year, killing more than 11,000 people mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. (Photo: AFP)

17 deaths reported in Congo as Ebola outbreak confirmed

It is the ninth time Ebola has been recorded in the central African nation, whose eastern Ebola river gave the deadly...

9 May 2018 8:29 AM IST

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'Was forced to kill my best friend,' says former Congo child soldier

Millions of people died between 1996 and 2003 as conflict caused hunger and disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

16 Nov 2016 3:24 PM IST

The ministry said Ugandan forces had launched air and artillery strikes in a joint operation with DR Congos army on Dec 22 against Allied Democratic Forces. (Photo: AFP/File)

100 rebels killed in DR Congo strikes, says Uganda army

Those who survived are roaming in areas of North Kivu, but forces are pursuing them,' said defence ministry...

28 Dec 2017 2:51 PM IST