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Fourteen dead after illegal mine collapses in DRC

The accident happened at around 2pm in Kampene, 180 kilometres south of town of Kindu, when "dozens of people, including children and pregnant women" were at work on the site, a civil society campaigner said.

WHO accused of rationing Ebola vaccine in DR Congo

The ongoing Ebola outbreak is the second-worst one in history after more than 11,000 people were killed in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia between 2014 and 2016.

Ebola death toll in Democratic Republic of Congo rises to 1,984

The Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry says that among 3,128 cases of reported hemorrhagic fever, some 3,017 were confirmed to be Ebola cases.

Train derails in DRC killing at least 50 – minister

Stowaways killed as cargo train derails in Democratic Republic of Congo's southeastern province of Tanganyika, officials say.

Museum of women: How Zambia inherited patriarchy from colonialism

The impact of British colonialism and religious interventions have erased the history of women in Zambia. But a new museum is working to fill these historical gaps.

DRC Ebola death toll crosses 2,000 ahead of UN chief's visit

The latest casualty in Uganda was a nine-year-old girl from the DRC, reviving fears that the virus could cross the porous borders of the central African country.

Should the term 'black' to describe people of African origin be retired?

The terms 'black' and 'negro' were coined to dehumanise people from the African continent to serve the imperialist and colonial agendas of Europe and the US.

First two Ebola cases confirmed in Congo's South Kivu - officials

The eastern DR Congo province of South Kivu has recorded its first confirmed cases of Ebola in the country's year-old epidemic, one of which was a fatality, said the provincial government.

Two Ebola drugs found to increase survival rates

More than 1,800 people have died in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since Ebola broke out there in August last year.

Three Congolese doctors arrested in connection with WHO official's death

Ebola treatment centres have repeatedly been attacked by armed militiamen and disgruntled locals, hampering efforts to contain the epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-ravaged east.

Rwanda says its border with DRC remains open

Rwanda's health minister came out with a clarification after the country's foreign affairs state minister had said that the border with DRC was shut over increased fears that the Ebolo virus could spread across the border.

Third Ebola case detected in DRC's Goma: medical source

"I have been informed of another confirmed Ebola case at the Goma Ebola treatment centre," said Aruna Abedi, the chief Ebola coordinator in North Kivu, the worst-hit province since the outbreak began on August 1 last year.