Tag: Congo

Joseph Kabila took the oath Tuesday for a second term as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, following a chaotic election his main...

International organisations appealed for calm on the eve of a presidential election in Democratic Republic of Congo already tainted by deadly street clashes and...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Health Department spokesman stressed the need to create public awareness regarding Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) fever. He said CCHF is...

A surgeon at a public hospital in Quetta, Balochistan suffering from the Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) died on Tuesday at the Aga Khan...

The death toll from Friday's passenger plane crash in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 56, the air company said. "There are 56...

At least Fifty-three people were feared dead on Friday after a plane crashed as it tried to land in bad weather at Kisangani airport...

The number of reported victims of a recent mass rape by gunmen in Democratic Republic of Congo has risen by about 70 to as...

A batch of 250 Pakistani troops Sunday left for Congo to perform peace keeping duties under the aegis of United Nations mission. Brigadier Humayun...

LONDON - An epidemic of measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is "spiralling out of control", the international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday. The doctors group said it had counted 21,000 measles cases since September 2010 in an epidemic sweeping through the central African country.
It said urgent international action was needed to halt the spread of the highly contagious disease. "Since September 2010 we have vaccinated more than 1.5

WASHINGTON - At the age of 14, Laba Kamana was captured by rebel soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They took her from her home, and for two years, raped her nearly every day. She finally escaped into the Congolese jungle; one of the world's most dense, then discovered she was pregnant with the child of one of her captors.
Tuesday the actor Ben Affleck used the nightmare of the young woman - now 22 years old, studying law and advocating for women's rights - to

LUBUMBASHI - DR Congo's army repulsed an assault by gunmen on Lubumbashi airport in the south of the country Friday in which a civilian security guard was killed, a government spokesman said. "Fewer than 20 people", who have not yet been identified, sparked a three-hour gun battle when they attacked the airport at around 4:00 am, Communications Minister Lambert Mende told AFP.
"The situation is under control. The people who were trying to seize control of the airport's arms store

KARACHI: Rumours of Congo virus outbreak in Karachi at the time when a large number of dengue fever cases have been reported across the province have panicked the residents and the Sindh Health Department.
A private TV news channel ran a report quoting Sindh Health Department sources that two Crimean-Congo heamorrhagic fever patients have been admitted to a private hospital. "We have not been able to confirm the news," said Saleem Khan, the Sindh Health Department's public