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A new global health emergency: What is mpox, where are the outbreaks and will the virus spread?
4 months, 1 week ago

A new global health emergency: What is mpox, where are the outbreaks and will the virus spread?

Associated Press  

LONDON — The World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international borders. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they’re infected, said Dr. Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, a Congolese researcher who led the research into the new …

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Top UN official in Congo welcomes 2-week truce in the east, where violence is at ‘alarming levels’
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Top UN official in Congo welcomes 2-week truce in the east, where violence is at ‘alarming levels’

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The top U.N. official in Congo on Monday welcomed a two-week humanitarian cease-fire in its mineral-rich east, where she said violence has reached “alarming levels” and risked provoking a wider regional conflict. Keita said that as U.N. experts have documented, “the government of Rwanda has reinforced its support to the M23, enabling it to make major territorial …

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Family of American caught up in Congo failed coup says their son went to Africa on vacation
7 months ago

Family of American caught up in Congo failed coup says their son went to Africa on vacation

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The family of an American caught up in a failed coup attempt in Congo said their son was in Africa on vacation with family friends and had not previously engaged in political activism, according to a statement provided to The Associated Press. “We are stunned and heartbroken by the videos we have seen from the …

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Who was behind the DRC’s attempted coup, and were Americans involved?
7 months ago

Who was behind the DRC’s attempted coup, and were Americans involved?

Al Jazeera  

The attackers were led by Christian Malanga, a politician and former military officer based in the US. In a livestream posted on Facebook during Sunday’s attack, Malanga threatened the president and chanted “New Zaire!” The DRC was formerly called Zaire. “Instead of attacking strategic sites like the two airports in Kinshasa, the military camps and the RTNC, the Malanga commando …

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Congo to appeal against lifting of Morocco coach’s ban at Africa Cup
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Congo to appeal against lifting of Morocco coach’s ban at Africa Cup

Associated Press  

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Morocco’s and Congo’s argument at the Africa Cup of Nations rumbles on. The Congolese soccer federation on Monday said it was appealing against the lifting of a suspension of Morocco coach Walid Regragui for his role in the melee after the teams’ heated encounter. Regragui was initially banned for four games — with two suspended — …

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Congolese businessman Katumbi launches his presidential campaign to challenge Tshisekedi
1 year, 1 month ago

Congolese businessman Katumbi launches his presidential campaign to challenge Tshisekedi

Associated Press  

KISANGANI, Congo — Congolese businessman and opposition leader Moise Katumbi launched his presidential campaign on Monday, five years after the regime in power at the time blocked him from running. Katumbi’s rally in the city of Kisangani came a day after his two main competitors, President Felix Tshisekedi and opposition figure Martin Fayulu, started their campaigns ahead of the Dec. …

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Massacre of innocents: The Hindu Editorial on the attack on a school on the Uganda-Congo border
1 year, 6 months ago

Massacre of innocents: The Hindu Editorial on the attack on a school on the Uganda-Congo border

The Hindu  

The killing of at least 41 people, including 38 students, in an attack on a school on the Uganda-Congo border by suspected Islamist militants is yet another cruel reminder of the worsening security situation in Africa. After the 1998 school attack, the Ugandan and Congolese armies launched a joint operation, which forced the ADF to relocate to the jungles of …

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‘Hands off Africa!': Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Hands off Africa!': Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo

Associated Press  

KINSHASA, Congo — Pope Francis demanded Tuesday that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural resources for the “poison of their own greed” as he arrived in Congo to a raucous welcome by Congolese grateful he was focusing the world’s attention on their forgotten plight. Calling Congo’s vast mineral and natural wealth a “diamond of creation,” Francis demanded that foreign interests …

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‘Hands off Africa!’: Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Hands off Africa!’: Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo

LA Times  

Pope Francis, left, sits with President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo during a welcome ceremony at the “Palais de la Nation” in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Tuesday. Pope Francis demanded Tuesday that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural resources for the “poison of their own greed” as he arrived in Congo to …

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Rwanda fires on Congo military aircraft accused of violation
1 year, 10 months ago

Rwanda fires on Congo military aircraft accused of violation

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Rwanda has fired on a Congolese military aircraft it alleges violated its airspace in a new escalation of tensions between the neighbors that has set off alarm across central Africa. A Rwandan government statement said “defensive measures” were taken against a Sukhoi-25 from Congo on Tuesday evening, and it urged Congo to “stop this aggression.” Rwanda’s state …

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Talks begin on disarmament of rebel groups in eastern Congo
2 years ago

Talks begin on disarmament of rebel groups in eastern Congo

The Independent  

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Leaders of French-speaking countries hold summit in Tunisia
2 years, 1 month ago

Leaders of French-speaking countries hold summit in Tunisia

Associated Press  

TUNIS, Tunisia — Leaders of French-speaking countries gathered Saturday on a Tunisian island to discuss debt relief, migration, food and energy shortages amid a soaring cost-of-living crisis across Africa, Europe and the Middle East due to Russia’s war on Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the presidents of eight African nations were attending the 18th …

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East Africa bloc announces peace talks for eastern DRC
2 years, 1 month ago

East Africa bloc announces peace talks for eastern DRC

Al Jazeera  

The announcement came as Congolese troops clashed anew with the M23 north of the city of Goma in the volatile east. East African leaders on Sunday announced peace talks in a bid to stabilise the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where M23 rebels clashed with troops just north of its key city of Goma over the weekend. The seven-nation East …

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Escalating border war in Africa tests a Biden administration already weighed down by global crises
2 years, 4 months ago

Escalating border war in Africa tests a Biden administration already weighed down by global crises

LA Times  

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken listens as Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vincent Biruta speaks during a news conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Kigali, Rwanda, on Aug. 11. “Every country in the region must respect the territorial integrity of the others,” Blinken said after meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. In addition to …

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Pope, unable to go to Congo, embraces Congolese in Rome
2 years, 5 months ago

Pope, unable to go to Congo, embraces Congolese in Rome

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis greeted members of the Congolese community in Rome, borrowing words from their native languages Sunday to wish them peace and joy during an especially vibrant ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica. A day earlier, Francis sent a video message to the people and leaders of Congo and South Sudan that exhorted them to forge new paths …

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German-funded inquiry into DRC atrocities slammed as ‘cover-up’
2 years, 6 months ago

German-funded inquiry into DRC atrocities slammed as ‘cover-up’

Al Jazeera  

Photos appear to support the claim that Indigenous villagers were killed in a drive to force them from Kahuzi-Biega Park. The report concluded at least 20 members of the Batwa Indigenous community were killed in the park by “joint contingents” of park guards and Congolese soldiers in three waves of violent attacks. “Within three days, the highly specific information provided …

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Colonialism is not dead, Your Royal Highness
2 years, 6 months ago

Colonialism is not dead, Your Royal Highness

Al Jazeera  

Royals should not be allowed to score ‘woke points’ by expressing regret over the atrocities committed by their ancestors. “On the occasion of my first trip to Congo, here, in front of the Congolese people,” the 62-year-old monarch said, “I wish to reaffirm my deepest regrets for these wounds of the past.” The “wounds” the Belgian king mentioned are of …

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Vaccines and medicines have brought Ebola is under control, says scientist who discovered the virus
3 years, 3 months ago

Vaccines and medicines have brought Ebola is under control, says scientist who discovered the virus

Firstpost  

Jean-Jacques Muyembe first came across the virus in 1976 as a field epidemiologist when he was called to the village of Yambuku in northern DRC for a mysterious illness that had just appeared. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the virus more than 40 …

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Belgium's Africa Museum begins long road to return looted artworks to Congo
3 years, 5 months ago

Belgium's Africa Museum begins long road to return looted artworks to Congo

Hindustan Times  

Belgium's Africa Museum, once a celebration of the country's colonial rule, will begin a multi-year process of returning stolen art to Democratic Republic of Congo, the Belgian government said on Tuesday. An ancestral statue known as Lusinga, dated to the 19th century, is pictured at the Royal Museum for Central Africa as the Belgian government has announced plans to return …

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The pandemic has driven thousands of Africans out of Guangzhou. A generation of mixed-race children is their legacy
3 years, 9 months ago

The pandemic has driven thousands of Africans out of Guangzhou. A generation of mixed-race children is their legacy

CNN  

CNN — When the coronavirus pandemic ground China to a near-halt in early February last year, Youssouf Dieng jetted back to Dakar for, he thought, a brief sojourn. “For the whole issue of African traders in Guangzhou, I suspect that era is over,” says Gordon Mathews, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong …

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