World
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Africa
8/9/2022 6:27:03 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in DR Congo on Tuesday for a one-day visit expected to focus on a conflict in the east of the country that has sparked tensions with Rwanda.
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World
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Africa
8/4/2022 7:53:34 PM
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) deeply regrets the Congolese government's recent decision to expel its spokesperson, read a statement released Thursday morning.
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World
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Africa
8/3/2022 11:26:57 PM
Congo's government has requested that the spokesman for the United Nations mission in Congo leave the country, saying he has made inappropriate statements amid demonstrations against the presence of the UN peacekeepers.
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World
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Africa
8/2/2022 5:42:59 PM
Congo's government is reassessing the presence of United Nations peacekeepers after protests against the force in the country's east have killed at least 36 people.
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World
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Africa
8/1/2022 4:14:44 PM
Violent protests erupted in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in late July 2022, resulting in the deaths of at least three peacekeepers and several civilians.
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World
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Africa
7/31/2022 5:33:08 PM
Two people have been killed and several others injured after UN peacekeepers opened fire during an incident in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on the Uganda border on Sunday, the UN said.
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World
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Africa
7/29/2022 4:39:15 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next month to South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the State Department announced Friday, as Washington ramps up diplomacy in Africa to counter a Russian charm offensive.
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World
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Africa
7/28/2022 6:22:35 PM
Demonstrators in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have called for the immediate withdrawal of the United Nations peacekeeping mission.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
7/26/2022 10:30:03 PM
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World
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Africa
7/26/2022 7:00:48 PM
At least five people have been killed and about 50 others injured on the second day of demonstrations in Congo's eastern city of Goma against the United Nations mission in the country, a government official said.
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World
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Africa
7/25/2022 2:38:59 PM
Protesters stormed a United Nations base in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Monday, an AFP journalist said, demanding the departure of peacekeepers from the region.
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World
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Africa
7/8/2022 5:22:59 PM
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels have killed 13 people and torched a clinic in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said Friday.
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World
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Africa
7/6/2022 5:47:13 PM
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo leader Felix Tshisekedi went into talks on Wednesday amid an upsurge in violence in eastern DRC, according to an AFP correspondent.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
7/5/2022 5:24:14 PM
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Life & Style
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Health
7/5/2022 9:40:16 AM
The Democratic Republic of Congo declared its latest Ebola outbreak over on Monday, the World Health Organization said, more than two months after the virus re-emerged in the country’s northwest.
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World
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Africa
7/3/2022 2:14:07 PM
Pope Francis greeted members of the Congolese community in Rome, borrowing words from their native languages Sunday to wish them peace and joy during an especially vibrant ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica.
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World
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Africa
7/2/2022 3:26:14 PM
Pope Francis urged the people and leaders of Congo and South Sudan on Saturday to ``turn a page'' and forge new paths of reconciliation, peace and development.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/1/2022 5:11:18 PM
The World Health Organization's Europe chief warned Friday that monkeypox cases in the region have tripled in the last two weeks and urged countries to do more to ensure the previously rare disease does not become entrenched on the continent.
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World
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Africa
7/1/2022 4:21:20 PM
Health authorities in Africa say they are treating the expanding monkeypox outbreak there as an emergency and are calling on rich countries to share the world's limited supply of vaccines in an effort to avoid the glaring equity problems seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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World
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Africa
6/29/2022 10:07:21 PM
The UN special envoy for DR Congo warned Wednesday that the M23 rebel group has increasingly acted as a conventional army during escalating military action in the country's volatile east and could threaten the UN peacekeeping force charged with protecting civilians.
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