The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday after the virus spread this week to a city of 2 million people .
The East African Community (EAC) has urged all parties to the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to immediately implement the ceasefire directive made by the EAC heads of state, the regional bloc said in a statement late Friday. The statement urged the parties to observe…
DAKAR, Senegal The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23 rebels in eastern Congo, according to a UN report In addition, the M23 rebels have forced children to be soldiers, according to the report by a panel of UN…
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