The head of the Independent National Election Commission Corneille Nangaa has said that the fire broke out around 2am in a building where election materials were being kept. Read more »

Ebola in the Democratic Republic Congo has now spread to urban areas. The Conversation Africa's Moina Spooner spoke to Mosoka Fallah who was head of case detection during Liberia's ... Read more »

First imposed in 2016, and renewed in 2017, the EU has extended sanctions on presidential hopeful Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary and fifteen other top officials until 2019. Read more »

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Denis Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist and Pentecostal pastor. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu in DR Congo, where he specialises in ... Read more »

The newest urban locations to be affected are the city of Butembo, as well as Kalenguta, 25km to its north, and Katwa, 30km to its east. These areas have all seen an increase in ... Read more »

During a cross-border meeting among health officials from the two countries, Uganda and DR Congo resolved to increase cross-border surveillance and harmonize data collection tools ... Read more »

Aid agencies working in the country say new figures from the UN that show a large drop in the number of displaced people are misleading, accusing it of bowing to government ... Read more »

The tally of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 426, surpassing the number of cases in the 2000-2001 Uganda outbreak and making it the second worst in ... Read more »

A UN investigation revealed that Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka's militia, known as the Nduma Defense of Congo and two other armed groups raped at least 387 people in 13 villages. Read more »

Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi was greeted by tens of thousands of supporters on his return from exile, as he kicked off his campaign to replace President Joseph Kabila in the ... Read more »