According to hospital sources, the death toll from "the terrorist attack" at a rebel rally in eastern DR Congo's city of Bukavu, on Thursday, February 27, has risen to 13 dead and 72 injured, ...

Is a new virus causing a disease outbreak and deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or is it already known to science?

The United Nations has authorised the evacuation of families of its international staff from Burundi following violence in DR ...

Residents, meanwhile, continue to flee from Goma to other neighboring countries and towards the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away. At the main border crossing ...

A mystery illness has caused 60 deaths​ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the outbreaks was preliminarily linked to children who had eaten a bat carcass.

Two explosions in the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday killed at least 11 people and injured around 65. The blasts occurred at a meeting of leaders of the ...

The Africa office of the World Health Organization says the first victims in one of the villages were children who ate a bat and died within 48 hours.

KINSHASA -- Several explosions were reported on Thursday at Independence Square in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), shortly after a political rally in support of the rebel March ...