The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three ... Today I’m treating the grandchildren of my early patients. At Panzi Hospital and Foundation, the health center and nongovernmental organization ...

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

I first met Jill Clark in 1997 in Port Moresby. I was working to establish health clinics and she was helping children ...

KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) – The Democratic Republic of ... First detected in late October, cases have so far been limited to the Panzi region, around 700 kilometres (435 miles) southeast of ...

started in Panzi, the rural part of the DRC. Most cases and deaths were found in children below 14. The region was remote and its connectivity with other parts of Congo is limited. It took some ...

AT least 60 people have died of a ‘mystery disease’ in northwestern Congo. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday it ...

Of almost 900 cases, 143 people were killed in the Panzi health zone ... the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was able to test 13 of the reported cases for common hemorrhagic ...

In the fall and winter of 2024, an outbreak of illness in the Panzi health zone in southwestern Congo turned out to be caused, at least in part, by malaria. At first, it was difficult to attribute ...

AT LEAST seven more people have died and 500 left sick from a mystery illness ravaging villages in north-western Congo, new figures reveal. Brits are being urged to look out for symptoms of the ...