Mining companies backed by the Chinese regime are using Congolese children to mine cobalt, a key component in electric car batteries. Are American carmakers helping China to exploit African children? China dominates the world’s cobalt processing. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there are unsafe working conditions, pay of less than $1 a day, injuries, […]
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo—A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the health minister said on Friday, five months after the end of the most recent outbreak there. It was not immediately known if the case was related to the 2018–2020 outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people in […]
Officials in Congo on Tuesday said a second Ebola case had been confirmed in Goma, the city of more than 2 million people whose first confirmed case in this yearlong outbreak was reported earlier this month.
Mountain gorillas at the Virunga National Park, a site gravely impacted by war and armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have bonded so well with their anti-poaching rangers that they are posing for selfies together. Virunga National Park is one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, […]
GENEVA—A doctor has become the first probable Ebola case in one of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s most violence-ridden and inaccessible zones, a scenario “we have all been dreading”, the World Health Organization said on Aug. 24. Since the outbreak erupted on Aug. 1, 103 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola have been identified […]
The United Nations on April 24 said a video in the hands of the Democratic Republic of Congo government seems to show the murder of two U.N. workers. Michael Sharp and Zeida Catalan disappeared in March. They were working in a dangerous part of the Congo where insurgents were increasingly active. The video shows the […]
