Projects that support Congolese women who have survived gender violence often promote ideal notions of how men and women should behave.
Stephen Morrision/EPA
Interventions to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence in eastern DR Congo often reinforce traditional gender stereotypes
DRC President Felix Tshisekedi during the inauguration ceremony.
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE
The DRC president’s direct involvement can rally people who have previously doubted the reality of the outbreak.
A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
EPA-EFE/STR
Uganda is the testing ground for a new vaccine that could work on more strains of the Ebola virus and other haemorrhagic fevers.
An artisanal mine.
Fairphone/Flickr
Artisanal and industrial mining have a different impact on local conflict in eastern Congo.
Women listening to UN police conducting an awareness campaign in Ebola hit North Kivu, DRC.
EPA-EFE/Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
A review of research on both the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, found less than 1% of published research discussed gender issues.
A worker of the Democratic Republic of Congo Health Ministry checks people’s temperature in Goma.
Patricia Martinez/EPA
Ebola has now now spread to Goma – a city of 2m people.
Health officer on the front-line in the DRC.
Flickr
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.
MELANIE ATUREEBE/EPA
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.
EPA/HUGH KINSELLA CUNNINGHAM
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.
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA/EFE
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.
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA
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.