Ebola is a dreadful disease and is one of the deadliest infections known to medical science.
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Instability in the DRC and Ebola’s deadly properties is making it hard to contain the virus.
Since 2014 the Ebola outbreak in Liberia killed over 4,800 people.
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It could be a matter of days before the ebola epidemic in the DRC spreads to urban centres or spills over into neighbouring countries.
WHO worker administers Ebola vaccination in Mbandaka, DRC.
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The UN Security Council’s response to the most recent Ebola outbreak has been weak. But what options does it have?
Joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize: Nadia Murad (left) with Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege.
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The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad should strengthen efforts against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
The city of Uvira, in the South Kivu province, study site for new research on cholera.
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In the fight against cholera, new research in the DRC suggests that the rehabilitation of water networks would be more sustainable than other interventions whose effectiveness is debatable.
Some male gorillas regularly hold, play and groom infants.
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Male gorillas who spend more time with infants are expected to sire about 5 times more babies.
Voters during the DRC’s last elections in Kinshasa.
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It’s been an eventful year for the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country prepares for elections.
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The BBC drama about Rwanda tackles post-genocide events in a way few dramas or documentaries have done before.
The Yazidis – targeted by Islamic State.
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There is an urgent need for a binding convention for the prohibition of violence against women.
A new short drug treatment for tuberculosis, called BPaMZ, is showing promise in trials.
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We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
Mountain and lowland gorillas are vulnerable to malaria.
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Malaria can be transmitted from humans to gorillas, with devastating effects.
Yazidi children hold pictures of Nadia Murad, one of two winners of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, in Duhok, Iraq, Oct. 5, 2018.
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With the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two leaders who fight against sexual violence as a tool of war, we looked into our archive to find stories about those efforts across the globe.
Ebola vaccination team member administering Ebola vaccine in Beni, North Kivu, DRC.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been hit with another Ebola outbreak. This may be the test case for how to deal with future outbreaks.
Congolese women march to government offices in the Bunia, Eastern DRC to mark International Women’s Day.
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Women in the DRC are much more than victims of violence and coming together to effect change.
Chased from mining sites, rebels simply try to control roads in the DRC.
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The DRC’s roads are a crucial space where conflict, illegal taxation, and conflict financing entangle.
Anti-Joseph Kabila protesters left five people dead and scores injured in Kinshasa.
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Emmanuel Shadary is President Joseph Kabila’s preferred presidential candidate meaning that Kabila could remain in power if not in office.
A global survey claims South Africans don’t trust their police.
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The Law and Order Index says South Africans feel less secure than people in Yemen, the DRC and Libya, countries all affected by violent conflict.
Voting in the presidential run-off elections in Mali, recently.
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In Africa, biased media coverage is one of the reasons voters have little faith in credible elections.
Jean-Pierre Bemba wants to be president of the DRC.
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Jean-Pierre Bemba is a man with a past. Once accused of crimes against humanity, he is now making a play for the DRC’s presidency.
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo (right) in the ICC courtroom during his trial in 2016.
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Sexual violence, a staple of war, has long been absent from international criminal law’s charge sheets.