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Some 83 aid workers, a quarter of them employed by the WHO, were found to have been involved in sexual exploitation and abuse during the country's Ebola epidemic from 2018 to 2020.

Today's Focus takes us to Kinshasa, DRC's sprawling capital city, where growing addiction to "bombé," a new artisanal drug, is rattling authorities. The lethargy-inducing mixture is made of crushed p…

Accident likely caused by ‘overcrowding aggravated by bad weather’, says spokesman.

The conflict in the DRC is on “such a massive scale”, that the country has the highest number of internally displaced in Africa, a large refugee population of 500,000, and is experiencing multiple crises, including in education, funding and healthcare, said David McLachlan-Karr, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for DRC.

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Saturday announced that a new case of Ebola has been detected in the health zone of Butsili, in North Kivu Province, where a

Over 100 dead or missing after boat capsizes in DR Congo

More than 100 people are believed dead or missing in the sinking of a makeshift vessel on the Congo river, provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Saturday.

On tonight's show we talk to WHO's Global Malaria Programme, as the organisation has just recommended malaria vaccine rollout for children. It is a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds…

In recent days, two former presidents have been targets of fake news. In DR Congo, a photo of Joseph Kabila has been circulating  with the claim he is alongside the former head of the armed group ADF…

For Bintou Keita, the secretary-general’s special representative and head of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), food insecurity and cyclical epidemics are major concerns.