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Congo government 'on alert' over mystery flu-like disease that killed dozens
ETHealthworld.com
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December 6, 2024
Kinshasa: Public health officials in Africa urged caution Thursday as Congo's health minister said the government was on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people. Jean Kaseya, the head of Africa Centers...
World : Dr Congo, WHO Investigate Mysterious Illness Cluster As Death Toll Reaches 60
Bernama
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February 28, 2025
KINSHASA, Feb 28 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in cooperation with the World Health Organisation (WHO), are investigating a new cluster of illnesses and community deaths in Equateur Province,...
Travel + Leisure Readers Rank Minor Hotels Among the World’s Best in 2025 Awards
Africa.com
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July 14, 2025
African excellence recognised: Kilindi Zanzibar named continent’s top resort JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 14 July 2025-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Minor Hotels, a global hotel owner and operator with more than 560 properties across six...
DR Congo, WHO investigate mysterious illness cluster as death toll reaches 60
Xinhua News Agency
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KINSHASA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), are investigating a new cluster of illnesses and community deaths in Equateur Province, where...
Islamist terror in Congo: ISIS-linked militants beheaded over 70 Christians
Organiser Weekly
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Over seventy Christians were found beheaded inside a Protestant church in the village of Kasanga, Lubero territory, marking one of the deadliest assaults on believers in the country’s troubled northeast Congo last week. The massacre, allegedly...
Death Toll Rises to 16 in Eastern DRC Blasts as Rebel Tensions Escalate
News Ghana
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March 2, 2025
The death toll from twin explosions in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), climbed to 16 on Friday, as the government and the M23 rebel group traded blame for the attack that has deepened fears of escalating violence in the...
Rebels in eastern Congo abducted 130 hospital patients, U.N. says
The Hindu
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March 4, 2025
File picture of M23 rebels entering the centre of east Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South Kivu province administrative office, on February 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Rwanda-backed M23 rebels abducted at least 130...
DR Congo: The Tshisekedi Family is Looting Katanga Dry
KT Press Rwanda
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March 2, 2025
0 Katanga is nothing but a huge mining pit Miners denounce the systematic looting of their province’s vast resources. After several weeks of negotiations, a meeting was arranged. Several members of Katangan civil society, labor unions, and mining...
African leaders urge all parties to hold direct talks with M23 on DRC
BusinessLIVE
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Dar es Salaam — Leaders at an unprecedented joint summit of Eastern and Southern African blocs aimed at defusing the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) urged all parties to hold direct talks, including with Rwanda-backed rebels whose...
Rebels in eastern Congo abducted 130 hospital patients, UN says
Winnipeg Free Press
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March 3, 2025
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in a major city in eastern Congo, the United Nations said Monday. On Feb. 28, M23 fighters raided the CBCA Ndosho Hospital and Heal Africa...
Unidentified illnesses in NW Congo have sickened over 400, killed more than 50
The Sentinel-Record - Arkansas
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February 27, 2025
KINSHASA, Congo -- Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick. The outbreaks in two distant villages in Congo's Equateur province...
What to Know About Mystery Illnesses Killing Dozens in Congo
TIME Magazine
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KINSHASA — Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick. The outbreaks in two distant villages in Congo’s Equateur province began on...
At least 5 killed in explosions after rally in eastern DR Congo's Bukavu city
Xinhua News Agency
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KINSHASA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least five were killed by several explosions 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 23 Movement...
Unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo within hours of symptoms: WHO
News9 Live
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February 27, 2025
Health News According to the WHO’s Africa office, the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms. Kinshasa: An unknown illness has killed over 50 people...
Mysterious ‘crying’ disease is killing people within hours; from symptoms to origin | All you need to know
Mint
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February 27, 2025
A mysterious illness has infected over 400 people and caused more than 50 deaths in northwestern Congo in Africa over the past two months. Many of them died within hours after they fell sick, the Associated Press has reported. The sudden surge in...
What we know about Congo illness that has sickened 400, killed 50
Voice of America
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February 26, 2025
KINSHASA, CONGO — Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick. The outbreaks in two distant villages in Congo's Equateur province...
What we know about the illnesses that have sickened over 400 people and killed more than 50 in Congo
Tri-City News
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February 26, 2025
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick. KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Unidentified illnesses in northwestern...
DRC mystery outbreak could be more than malaria, officials say
Euronews
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Haemorrhagic fever isn’t typically associated with parasite-caused malaria, meaning the outbreak may be caused by more than severe malaria, authorities said. A man in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has died with symptoms of...
Fighting resumes in DRC's South Kivu ahead of crisis talks
Modern Ghana
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In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congolese authorities said its troops and its allies clashed with the M23 rebel group, supported by Rwandan soldiers, in the mining town of Nyabibwe in South Kivu. "Our positions have been attacked,"...
Unknown Illness from Bat Consumption Claims 50 Lives in Northwestern Congo
Times News Global
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February 25, 2025
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness believed to have originated from three children who consumed a bat has resulted in the deaths of more than 50 people in northwestern Congo in just five weeks, health experts reported on Monday. The...