BENI: Until his last breath, Salomon Nduhi Kambale insisted he had been poisoned by someone and that was the reason he was vomiting blood. The 30-year-old man wouldn’t give community health teams…
NEW YORK: Pakistan has called for greater international efforts to address the root cause of conflicts, saying that foreign occupation creates the breeding ground for violence perpetrated by occupying forces against women and…
KINSHASA/MATADI: Around 50 people were killed and another 100 suffered serious burns after a fuel tanker collided with a vehicle in Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, a regional official said. Deputy…
AMSTERDAM: The International Criminal Court on Monday sentenced Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba to a 300,000 euro fine and a 12 month sentence for witness tampering, but his sentence was reduced to zero…
GOMA: Two South African peacekeepers were wounded in a rebel ambush near the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, their UN mission said on Tuesday. The attack…
KINSHASA: An official in Congo says two United Nations peacekeepers have been released after being held by rebels in the country’s southeast. Tanganyika province vice-governor Ali Omar Simukinje told The Associated Press…
BENI: A park ranger was killed and two British citizens were kidnapped on Friday in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, a park service official and a local civil society leader…
UNITED NATIONS: A Pakistani peacekeeper deployed with the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was killed in an ambush, the UN said on Saturday. At least…
GOMA: Congolese troops began a military offensive in the eastern city of Beni on Saturday against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel armed group blamed for an attack that killed…
GENEVA: The United Nations will investigate an attack in Congo last month that killed 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on Friday. Dmitry Titov of Russia, a…
KINSHASA: A joint Ugandan and Congolese military operation killed more than 100 militants aligned with a rebel group believed to be responsible for the killings of 15 United Nations (UN) peacekeepers of…
GOMA: Suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least 15 Tanzanian UN peacekeepers and wounded 53 others in a raid on a base in Congo that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called the…
KINSHASA: From crouching over a small hole with a sheet for privacy to defecating in the open air, for millions of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo going to the toilet is…
KINSHASA: Rebels from a Ugandan-dominated group on Monday attacked a UN military base in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing one peacekeeper and injuring 12 others, the UN mission said. The…
KINSHASA: A military cargo plane crashed in Congo’s capital Kinshasa on Saturday, killing the crew, the director of the city’s main airport said. It was unclear how many crew members were on…
LAHORE: Congo virus is not too dangerous for the infected animals, as it can be cured through anti-biotic treatment at veterinary centres. However, it is more lethal when it is transmitted to human-beings,…
Sindh Health Department has launched a comprehensive awareness drive across Karachi to prevent and control Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) better known in Pakistan as the Congo virus during upcoming Eid-ul-Azha days. Director…
