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Members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) stand guard against the M23 rebel group in Lubero, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo October 27, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Djaffar Al Katanty/File Photo

Africa

Congo severs ties with Rwanda as eastern conflict escalates

The three-year M23 insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has intensified in January with the M23 rebels seizing control of more territory than ever before, prompting the UN to warn of...

US President Joe Biden meets with Angola's President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, November 30, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

USA

Biden's long-awaited Africa trip to tout a win against China

Omar Kagoma shows the marks on the skin of his six-year-old son Moussa Niyonkuru, after he recovered from Mpox, outside their house in Kinama zone, in Bujumbura, Burundi, August 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ngendakumana Evrard

Health

Mpox patients lack medicine, food, in east DR Congo hospital

A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Health

Mpox vaccines to arrive in DR Congo in next few days: WHO

A laboratory nurse takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case of Mpox at the treatment centre in Munigi, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Health

UNICEF issues emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines

An undated colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (pink) found within an infected cell (yellow), cultured in the laboratory, captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Photo: NIAID/Handout via REUTERS

Africa

New mpox strain is changing fast; African scientists are ‘working blindly’ to respond

Internally displaced women listen to Nathalie Kipenzi, a hygiene promoter, during an awareness campaign for Mpox, an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus that causes a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever, at the Muja camp for the internally displaced in Nyiragongo territory, near Goma in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo August 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi

Health

Why mpox vaccines are only just arriving in Africa after two years

Internally displaced women listen to Nathalie Kipenzi, a hygiene promoter, during an awareness campaign for Mpox, an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus that causes a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever, at the Muja camp for the internally displaced in Nyiragongo territory, near Goma in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo August 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi

Health

Mpox surge in Central Africa exposes the most vulnerable

A laboratory nurse takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case of Mpox at the treatment centre in Munigi, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Health

Congo hopes to receive first mpox vaccines by next week

Dr Tresor Wakilongo, verifies the evolution of skin lesions on the ear of Innocent, suffering from Mpox - an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus that sparks off a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever; at the treatment centre in Munigi, following Mpox cases in Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Africa

Mpox vaccines likely months away even as WHO, Africa CDC discuss emergency

Zawadi Bwira Bakulu, 35, shows the rash marks on her son Christevie Lukeka who recovered from Mpox in Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 18, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Africa

WHO to convene emergency committee to assess international risk from mpox outbreak

People shop at a public market in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo December 19, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

Africa

US to give $414 million in humanitarian aid for Congo