Tuesday, April 23, 2024

North Kivu province

February 3, 2024

Ukraine: UN official condemns deadly attack on aid workers

The UN air coordinator expressed shock that vehicles of the workers were attacked.

United Nations
November 24, 2023

450,000 fled fighting in eastern Congo: UN

The UNHCR put the numbers fleeing the fighting at 450,000 and said at least 200,000 of the internally displaced people had been cut off from humanitarian aid.

IDPs in congo (credit: Human rights watch)
March 12, 2023

Suspected Islamist militants kill 19 in east Congo

He said the militants kidnapped several others, who are now missing.

February 6, 2023

Guterres condemns attack on UN’s helicopter in DR Congo

M23 has seized many areas of North Kivu province in eastern DRC since last October.

UN PEACEKEEPERS
January 24, 2023

Islamists suspected of killing about 20 people in eastern Congo raid

The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group based in eastern Congo with ties to Islamic State, has been blamed for the killings.

Allied Democratic Forces terrorists in Congo
January 17, 2023

UN warns Buhari regime of ‘catastrophic’ hunger in Nigeria

According to the UN, nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of hunger between June and August this year if urgent action is not taken.

President Muhammadu Buhari
November 8, 2022

Mass displacements threaten children in DR Congo, UNICEF warns

UNICEF says the lives of thousands of children in overcrowded, unsanitary camps for IDPs in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are seriously at risk.

DR Congo crisis
May 24, 2022

All reported DR Congo Ebola patients dead: WHO

WHO disclosed that all five patients had died, and 234 contacts were identified and under surveillance, while 1,013 people, including frontline workers, were vaccinated.

Ebola Patients
May 9, 2022

Dozens killed in militia raid on Congo gold mine

Civil society leaders estimated that between 30 and 50 people were killed during the attack.

A mine in the DR Congo
February 14, 2021

Four dead in fresh Ebola outbreak as WHO prepares response for Africa

Guinea’s health department had reported that four people died of Ebola in a resurgence of the disease that first emerged five years ago.