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Congolese city Goma under threat as thousands flee rebel advance

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters A rocket landed near a university in the Congolese city of Goma on Wednesday as thousands of civilians fled a fresh advance by M23 rebels that threatens to isolate the city of around two million people. There were no casualties from the strike, which blasted a crater into open […]

Broken promises drive exiled hunter-gatherers back to Congolese gorilla refuge

Nsimire Nankafu, an Indigenous pygmy woman, and her family sit inside their shelter after a consultation meeting with the indigenous peoples of the Muyange village in Tshivanga near the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, in the South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 16th June, 2023.

Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters In the forested borderlands of eastern Congo, some members of an exiled hunter-gatherer community plan to move back into their ancestral land in a national park in protest over broken promises from the authorities they say put rare gorillas over their rights. An estimated 10,000 Indigenous Batwa live […]

Congo Red Cross halts search for hundreds of flood victims

A general view shows the ruins of a home destroyed following rains that destroyed the remote, mountainous area and ripped through the riverside villages of Nyamukubi, Kalehe territory in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on 9th May, 2023

Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters The Congolese Red Cross has suspended its search for hundreds of victims of recent deadly floods in eastern Congo as it lacks the machinery needed to dig through metres of mud and debris, its local representative said on Tuesday. Red Cross teams have been searching for bodies since early […]

Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives

Red Cross workers and volunteers gather for a briefing where Congolese civilians were killed following rains that destroyed the remote, mountainous area and ripped through the riverside villages of Nyamukubi, Kalehe territory in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo on 9th May, 2023.

Nyamukubi, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters The death toll from flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher on Tuesday as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic. The floods, in a remote, mountainous area of South Kivu province, ripped […]

Congo flood survivors mourn lost relatives as death toll rises above 400

Congolese civilians gather after the death of their family members following rains that destroyed buildings and forced aid workers to gather mud-clad corpses into piles in the village of Nyamukubi, Kalehe territory in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on 6th May 2023.

Bushushu, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters Dead bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country’s deadliest disasters in recent history. Many dazed survivors were mourning multiple family members killed in the flash floods that […]

Ebola spread to new Congo area shows flawed response – aid workers

Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Ebola’s spread to a new part of Democratic Republic of Congo is a disturbing sign that health workers are failing to keep track of high-risk people on the move, aid agencies said on Friday. A woman and her child were confirmed to be the first two Ebola cases in Congo’s South […]

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