Health officer on the front-line in the DRC.
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The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. What does this mean for the outbreak response?
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo attends a confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
EPA/Michael Kooren
African leaders who have sought ICC involvement have all seen the court as being beneficial to the survival of their governments.
Congolese Bosco Ntaganda in the courtroom during the closing statements of his trial in The Hague.
EPA-EFE/Bas Czerwinski
Ntaganda’s conviction represents real progress, and an actual significant victory, for the ICC.
A health worker administers the Ebola vaccine.
EPA-EFE
The threat posed by measles is on the rise again in a number of countries in the world. One of them is the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Botswana’s Okavango Delta.
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Our work represents the first assessment of what social and economic factors are connected to environmental degradation across the entire African continent.
Rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army making their way to a camp in southern Sudan. The group forcibly recruits children.
EPA/Stephen Morrison
Natural resources are an important factor in explaining why some rebel groups forcibly recruit children into their ranks.
The author, Dr. Steven Hatch, with members of a church in Gbanga, Liberia, in October 2014.
Steven Hatch
Alarm arose when news spread that Ebola cases had been found in Uganda. Here are the real reasons for concern.
Border screening at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
EPA-EFE/DANIEL IRUNGU
Kenya appears prepared for Ebola outbreaks, but a lot more can be done.
Health workers from Bwera hospital prepare to transport the body of a fifty-year-old woman who died of Ebola to the burial site in Bwera, Uganda.
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Ebola is difficult to contain because of human social and behavioural factors. But it can be if 100% of the infected people’s contacts are identified and monitored.
Burial of Ebola victims in the DRC.
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Vaccines against Ebola exist, as do diagnostic tests and screening at border crossings. So why is the disease spreading?
President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed a Kabila ally to the powerful post of prime minister.
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Felix Tshisekedi must come out from under former premier Joseph Kabila’s thumb.
Health workers burying a child who died of Ebola in the DRC’s North Kivu province.
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The grim facts are undisputed: the current Ebola outbreak is expanding, largely unabated.
A health worker looks on at an Ebola transit centre in Beni in North Kivu province, DRC.
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA
Research has identified a range of health complications in Ebola survivors. These include eye complications and vision problems.
Demonstration for conflict-free products.
Enough Project/Flickr
Responsible mineral sourcing programmes in the DRC have their flaws.
Riot police on the outskirts of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
EPA/Nic Bothma
There is an urgent need to improve the training of both the army and police in the DRC.
West Africa experienced the worst Ebola outbreak between 2013 and 2016.
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The current Ebola outbreak in the DRC is devastating vulnerable communities already affected by displacement and violence.
There are about 600 Mountain gorillas left in the Virunga Volcanoes.
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In Rwanda gorillas have been leaving protected areas to raid sodium rich crops.
Copper was part of the deal between the DRC and the Chinese company Sicomines.
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The deal between the DRC and the Chinese company Sicomines didn’t take into account how the Congolese people would benefit.
DRC’s new President Felix Tshisekedi (left) and outgoing President Joseph Kabila. The two have agreed to share power.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has implemented power-sharing agreements before but none of them have worked.
Former DRC President Joseph Kabila congratulates President Felix Tshisekedi at his inauguration.
EPA-EFE/Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s new leader Felix Tshisekedi is being undermined by the outgoing regime of Joseph Kabila.