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Sports
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Omni sports
12/4/2024 9:39:20 PM
Egypt's women Handball team achieved a historic milestone by securing their first-ever spot at the World Championship after defeating DR Congo 23-22 in the ongoing African Championship quarterfinals on Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/21/2024 9:16:57 PM
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Congolese counterpart Térèse K. Wagner agreed on Thursday to adhere to relevant international law principles, particularly the principles of prior notification and no harm, regarding the Nile River issue.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/12/2024 9:05:38 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed Tuesday peace and security challenges in Africa in a phone call with President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Felix Tshisekedi.
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Sports
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Africa
10/10/2024 9:16:31 PM
Ghana faced a setback in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers as they were held to a goalless draw at home by Sudan on Thursday.
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World
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Africa
10/8/2024 2:55:42 PM
Nearly a million people within the Democratic Republic of Congo have been displaced from their homes this year, the UN human rights chief said Tuesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/15/2024 12:32:06 PM
Limited capacity is keeping mpox testing coverage low in the DR Congo — the epicenter of the international emergency — the World Health Organization said Saturday in its latest situation report.
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World
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Africa
9/10/2024 9:44:16 PM
Democratic Republic of Congo received on Tuesday 50,000 more vaccine doses from the United States to fight the country's mpox epidemic, adding to some 200,000 donated by the European Union.
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World
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Africa
9/4/2024 5:44:00 PM
The first delivery of mpox vaccines will arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, the African Union's health watchdog said.
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World
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Africa
8/30/2024 7:04:25 PM
The first delivery of mpox vaccines is expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming days, the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday.
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World
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International
8/27/2024 9:12:03 PM
The WHO on Tuesday said droplets were a minor route of transmission for mpox compared to physical contact, adding that more research was needed to understand how the outbreak is spreading.
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World
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International
8/25/2024 5:58:42 PM
Pope Francis on Sunday highlighted victims of the mpox virus in his weekly prayers and called on governments and the pharmaceutical industry to do more to get vaccines to the worst hit countries.
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World
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Africa
8/18/2024 7:07:19 PM
An ever-growing number of patients have been flocking to a Goma hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a rapidly-spreading epidemic of mpox has erupted in recent months.
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World
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International
8/16/2024 2:04:52 PM
The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday an mpox outbreak has killed 548 people there this year, as the first case outside Africa of the virus's more dangerous variant was recorded in a traveller in Sweden.
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World
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International
8/16/2024 1:24:03 PM
Pakistan said Friday it had confirmed a case of mpox, a day after Sweden recorded the first infection outside of Africa involving a new, more dangerous strain of the virus that has killed hundreds in the DR Congo.
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World
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Africa
8/13/2024 6:02:18 PM
The African Union's health watchdog on Tuesday declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, saying the move is a "clarion call for action".
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World
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Africa
8/12/2024 10:35:03 PM
The death toll of two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed to at least 18, with 14 people missing, local sources told AFP on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
7/16/2024 6:44:11 PM
At least 70 people, including nine soldiers and a soldier's wife, were killed when armed men attacked a village in western Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said, as violence intensifies between two rival communities.
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World
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Africa
7/8/2024 11:38:29 AM
Some 3,000-4,000 Rwandan soldiers are fighting alongside the M23 in east DR Congo, said a UN experts report seen by AFP Monday, which noted that Kigali has "de facto control" of the rebels' operations.
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World
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Africa
7/4/2024 10:36:55 AM
Twenty-five soldiers accused of "fleeing the enemy" while fighting M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sentenced to death Wednesday during a one-day trial, according to their lawyers.
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World
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Africa
6/30/2024 8:56:09 PM
The M23 militia group has seized another town in the war-torn east of DR Congo, as the rebels gain more ground, sources told AFP Sunday.
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