[UNFPA] North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Following the eruption of the volcano, Mount Nyiragongo near Goma, tens of thousands of women and girls are in urgent need of critical sexual and reproductive health services, including support to p...

[UN News] UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate recent deadly attacks by insurgents in the east and bring the perpetrators to account.

[New Times] Cheikh Sarr, the national basketball head coach has pointed out Angola and DRC as the teams that will pose the biggest challenge to the national side in the Afrobasket competition slated for August in Kigali.

[IPS] New York -- A few weeks ago, I traveled with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to the Modale refugee site in the Nord-Ubangi province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). What we witnessed there was a profound human...

[VOA] Geneva -- Aid agencies say 350,000 people affected by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo are in need of urgent assistance.

[East African] Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an infrastructural agreement, defining each other's role in the two roads they are jointly funding.

[MSF] Hundreds of thousands of people have been left displaced, and over half a million in the city of Goma have been left without access to clean drinking water, following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic ...

[The Conversation Africa] Seismologists in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were still reporting earthquakes around the Mount Nyiragongo volcano a week after it erupted. The original eruption killed at least 32 people and tens of thousands had ...

[Daily Maverick] We need to build a road. A road into the Congo. The goal should be that within five years, one could drive from Durban to Kinshasa on a decent road. That would transform the lives of tens of millions of Congolese and open a massive m...

[GroundUp] Congolese refugee Azuri Muhuli uses painting to tell the stories of immigrants who have suffered xenophobic violence.

[Nation] Rebels belonging to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed 57 people in a Sunday night attack on two villages in the territory of Irumu, Ituri Province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials say.

[East African] I was driving around with my friend on Saturday evening when we saw fireball coming out of Nyiragongo," recalls 24-year-old Ranjit Mangat, a resident of Goma city in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

[Independent (Kampala)] Informal cross-border trade, which includes smuggling, is hugely important for survival in, around and beyond border regions. Across the border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) informal trade pays the...

[Nation] Kinshasa,

[Independent (Kampala)] Mpondwe/Kasindi- Beni (80km)

[WHO] Committee B, World Health Assembly

[New Times] Nearly 14,000 Congolese nationals have fled to Rwanda after warning of a second eruption, officials have confirmed.

[VOA] Geneva -- U.N. aid agencies say residents of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are fleeing the city in fear of further volcanic eruptions from Mount Nyiragongo.

[ICRC] Fearing another eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), thousands of people are fleeing the city of Goma and its surroundings. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has temporaril...

[Africa Renewal] Phelisa Frida Miya, 28, a paratrooper/riflewoman from South Africa serving in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). One of the few female soldiers in a male-dominated field, she believes her u...

[UN News] With fears that one of the world's most active volcanoes could erupt again in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is warning that up to 400,000 - nearly 280,000 children - could be displaced and in ne...

[VOA] Officials in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday ordered the partial evacuation of the city of Goma out of fears of another eruption of the nearby Mount Nyriagongo volcano.

[UN News] The threat of new volcanic eruptions from Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have triggered thousands of residents to flee from the eastern city of Goma, the UN humanitarian office said on Friday.

[New Times] Evacuation has started in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma, in anticipation of possible second volcanic eruption, Radio Okapi, a Congolese station reported on Thursday.

[Independent (Kampala)] Entebbe, Uganda -- DRC Deputy Prime Minister Christophe Lutundula Apala is expected in Uganda today to sign a key inter-governmental agreement on infrastructure.

[Agenzia Fides] Kinshasa -- Burundian armed groups of opposite tendency are fighting in the plain of Ruzizi, in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was stated in a note sent to Agenzia Fides by the Association cont...

[DW] The regional observatory stationed in Goma to monitor the Mount Nyiragongo volcano had not been working for several months, DW has learned. The Goma Volcano Observatory was caught by surprise.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Kinshasa -- Dozens of Congolese children separated from their families days after a deadly volcanic eruption could be at risk of kidnap, child labour, or recruitment by armed groups

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[Thomson Reuters Foundation] School closures and the economic fallout from the pandemic have left many minors with no choice but to work to survive