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Every week, hundreds of victims and survivors of sexual violence seek care at health centres supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2024 ...
On May 16, Succès Masra, the Chadian opposition leader and former prime minister, was arrested in N'Djamena, Chad's capital city. He is charged with complicity in intercommunal violence. But his ...
Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighbourhood of Pakadjuma has struggled ...
Held under the High Patronage of His Excellency President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, the "Rumba Route for Peace" ...
The high-profile treason trial of Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), began on Friday ...
Katrien Pype, Fighting Boys, Strong Men and Gorillas: Notes on the Imagination of Masculinities in Kinshasa, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 77, No. 2 (2007), pp. 250-271 ...
Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday.
KINSHASA, Congo — The death toll from flooding that cut access to over half of the Congolese capital of Kinshasa reached 33 as authorities raced Monday to evacuate and support hundreds of ...
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo – Tucked off a side road in Lubugi, a rough neighbourhood in the capital Kinshasa, barber Kris Bitenda puts the final touches on a client’s haircut.
High-voltage power cable snaps in Kinshasa market, killing 26 By Reuters February 2, 20221:16 PM PSTUpdated February 2, 2022 ...
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the third largest city in Africa and home to over 10 million people. Some scholars predict that, by 2050, the city’s population ...
The Matadi-Kinshasa service stuttered along until 2003 when a train derailed and two carriages landed in the river, killing 11 people. It took nearly 12 years to reopen the route.