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Tanzania has raised the red flag over lack of funds to take care of the increased number of refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo. Authorities in Dodoma appealed to development partners to support refugees living in camps. It followed an announcement earlier by the World Food Programme that it would …

Assailants killed three rangers and another member of their convoy in an ambush in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the Congo Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN). The attackers struck on Thursday as the convoy, escorted by ICCN rangers, left Kivandya village near Virunga …

Uganda on Friday dismissed as “baseless propaganda” reports that its airstrikes and artillery bombardments launched at several bases of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the Eastern Congo provinces of North Kivu and Ituri killed civilians. This come barely days after Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and their Congolese counterparts …

Thousands of people fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the night after a large volcano erupted. As the sky turned red and rivers of lava streamed from Mount Nyiragongo, there were concerns that its past deadly tragedies would be repeated. A mass evacuation was launched in …

Electricity, real estate, Akon goes into mining Senegalese-born American Hip hop artist Akon has launched yet another business endeavour on the African continent. This time the impressive undertaking is in the mining industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo as he has signed a deal to finance a copper and …

The Buliisa District security team is set to hand over at least two Congolese military personnel, and two rifles in exchange for over 30 Ugandan fishermen arrested on Lake Albert on DR Congo side. The Officer in charge of Buliisa Central Police Station, Mr Johnson Niwandinda on Tuesday handed over …

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday declared the end of the country’s latest Ebola epidemic after the outbreak killed 55 people over the past five months. “I am happy to solemnly declare the end of the 11th epidemic of the Ebola virus in Equateur province” in the vast country’s …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged to investigate allegations that aid workers tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo sexually abused and exploited women. WHO and other aid agency staff were accused by 50 women in a joint investigation by two news agencies. Local women were …

Armed militia attacked a school and raped female students on the eve of their examinations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The men attacked an examination centre housing 35 final year students in Isiro town, the capital of Haut-Uélé province. Local authorities said some female students were raped during the …

Uganda’s Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) beheaded three people in the latest attack in the Ituri region in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s north Kivu province, local media reported Saturday. “Three civilians were killed in a new attack by the Allied Democratic Forces fighters late Friday in the village of Mbingi, …