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Kinshasa shuts down in protest against plan to reform constitution

In tonight's edition: many people in Kinshasa stay home in protest against the possibility of their leader seeking a third term. Also, hundreds of Malawians and other foreign nationals flee their homes in South Africa as groups of xenophobic residents reportedly go door to door in the Western Cape issuing…

France 24

WHO seeks more aid for Congo as ebola outbreak continues to spread

The head of the World Health Organization met with Félix Tshisekedi on Monday to discuss the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak, as an aid agency warned the epidemic was likely far larger than official figures suggest. The government said confirmed Ebola cases had risen to 321.

Radio France Internationale

WHO chief lands in Kinshasa

Tedros Ghebreyesus arrived in Kinshasa ahead of a planned visit to the eastern province of Ituri, the epicentre of the outbreak. We speak to an investor that returned to Congo to grow chillis. And finally the Caen Memorial, in France is presenting an exhibition dedicated to sub-Saharan Africa, its history,…

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WHO chief in capital of Ebola-hit DR Congo

KINSHASA - The head of the World Health Organization, who is in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help fight an Ebola outbreak, was due on Friday to meet Congolese authorities before heading on Saturday to the violence-hit region at the centre of the crisis.

Bangkok Post

WHO chief says Ebola 'can be stopped' as he lands in DR Congo

KINSHASA - The UN health chief said on Thursday the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has claimed over 200 lives can be stopped, as he arrived to oversee the fight against the highly infectious disease.

Bangkok Post

White House pauses removal of detainees to DRC as Ebola outbreak widens

But Trump administration will not return detainees deported to third countries in disease-stricken region

The Guardian - US

Congo cancel World Cup training and fan farewell amid deadly Ebola outbreak

Congo’s football team has cancelled a World Cup training camp ahead of next month’s tournament

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WHO worried about ‘scale and speed’ of Ebola outbreak

KINSHASA - The World Health Organization chief voiced concern on Tuesday about the “scale and speed” of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has killed an estimated 131 people.

Bangkok Post

DRC Ebola outbreak: 'Nobody has a grip on the numbers,’ top expert warns

An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed dozens and spread beyond the country’s borders, with Jean-Jacques Muyembe – the Congolese scientist who co-discovered the virus nearly 50 years ago – telling RFI that health authorities may have detected the epidemic too late and still do not…

Radio France Internationale

Orphaned bonobos find sanctuary in Congo from poachers and bushmeat trade

Bonobos share nearly 99 per cent of their DNA with humans and, along with chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives

The Independent UK

Warning of severe hunger crisis in DR Congo’s megacity

Climate change and conflict are driving severe food insecurity across the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, while cuts to foreign aid are impacting the ability of UN agencies to respond

The Independent UK

Latin American migrants deported from US await their fate in DRC

The first group of Latin American migrants deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo has arrived in Kinshasa, under a controversial US scheme to transfer undocumented foreign nationals to third-party countries. They told RFI they feel "scared" in DRC.

Radio France Internationale

UN welcomes progress on talks between DR Congo, M23 armed group

MONUSCO, the UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo, has hailed progress after Kinshasa and rival M23 rebels agreed to ease humanitarian aid deliveries and release prisoners within 10 days, following talks last week in Switzerland.

Radio France Internationale

About 15 Latin American deportees from the US arrive in Congo

Fifteen people deported from the U.S. have landed in Congo's capital, Kinshasa

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DR Congo will receive third-country deportees under new deal with US

The Democratic Republic of Congo will receive third-country nationals deported from the United States under a new deal with the Trump administration, the government in Kinshasa said in a statement on Sunday.

Radio France Internationale

Congo in talks with US over third-country deportations, sources say

Democratic Republic of Congo is in talks with the Trump administration about receiving deportees from other countries, two government sources in Kinshasa told Reuters, in what would be the latest of several such agreements reached in Africa.

Radio France Internationale

DR Congo weighs price of security in minerals deal with US

A minerals-for-security deal between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a constitutional challenge in Kinshasa, with critics warning the government may be underselling the country’s vast mineral wealth. The partnership was praised by US President Donald Trump during a visit to Washington last week by…

Radio France Internationale

DRC remembers fatal plane crash in Kinshasa city centre, 30 years on

On 8 January 1996, a Russian-built Antonov aircraft crashed into a market in Kinshasha city centre, killing at least 237 people in one of the worst tragedies in African aviation history. Thirty years on, the market is bustling once more, but the city has not forgotten the victims.

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The Guardian - UK

Kinshasa’s last baobab: how a tree designed for survival faces its biggest threat yet

In this week’s newsletter: nature’s last stand against the DRC capital’s rampant development, plus looking back on last year’s stories of hope

The Guardian - UK

‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved?

Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRC’s capital has reduced their number in the city centre to one

Radio France Internationale

Washington summit on DRC-Rwanda relations aims for peace despite deep mistrust

The leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are meeting in Washington to endorse two long-negotiated agreements, in a United States-backed push to revive a fragile peace process. The summit comes amid ongoing violence in eastern DRC and an atmosphere of mistrust, making progress uncertain.

The Independent UK

64 people missing after boat capsizes in DR Congo

The vessel, which had left the port of Bena Dibele in Sankuru province, was bound for the capital, Kinshasa

Evening Standard

Sophie says sexual violence should ‘get under your skin’ during DR Congo visit

The Duchess of Edinburgh spent four days in the country during a secret high-security trip to ‘shine a light’ on the ‘weaponisation of rape’.

Radio France Internationale

Former Congolese president Kabila sentenced to death for war crimes

Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia on Tuesday by a military court in Kinshasa. The court found him guilty of treason, war crimes and organising an armed insurrection over his alleged collaboration with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group.

Al Jazeera

M23-DR Congo peace talks in Doha stalled: What next?

Both sides accuse the other of violating the terms of an earlier deal mediated by Qatar.

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