STAFF of the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are trapped in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), amid escalating violence between the army and rebel groups. The ...

Uganda's Ministry of Health, with support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and Alliance partners, UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), PATH and CHAI rolled out a malaria vaccination ...

When Basketball Hall of Famer and Nuggets great Dikembe Mutombo died from brain cancer last September, NBA commissioner Adam Silver lauded him for his excellence as a player and humanitarian. "On the ...

The escalation of violent conflict in recent months has pushed hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Democratic Republic ...

Electricity access in the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) has improved in recent years, but there are still challenges to providing reliable and widespread electricity to the entire population.

Using two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors ...

The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States ...

Ngay of the Congo also urged the 15-member Council to consider referring Rwanda’s military interference in his country to the International Court of Justice. He said that nearly half of the entire ...

M23 rebels in control of key areas of eastern Congo have agreed to a ceasefire with African coalition peacekeepers who ...

Twenty-eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a record for the country, driven by an ...

The capture of Goma and Bukavu, the regional capitals of North and South Kivu respectively in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the 23 March Movement (M23), strongly supported by ...

Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.