Aid groups and health officials say they lacked the staff, surveillance systems and emergency supplies needed.

Efforts to stop the latest outbreak of the deadly disease have been hampered by armed conflict in eastern DR Congo.

Sweeping aid cuts by Western nations left the Democratic Republic of Congo ill-equipped to contain an Ebola outbreak despite ...

A first Ebola case has been confirmed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, in an area under the Rwanda-backed M23 militia's control, the armed group's spokesman said ...

An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal on Wednesday afternoon due to concerns that one of the ...

A M23 rebel group spokesperson downplayed concerns about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a team ...

The World Health Organization director-general has expressed concern over the rapid spread of a rare type of Ebola in eastern ...

When Donald Trump boasts about all the wars he has supposedly ended, he often mentions one in central Africa. In December he ...

A busy market in the town of Sange, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province, which has been one of the main areas of recent fighting between the national army and Rwanda-backed ...

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The verdict was delivered on Friday during a military garrison tribunal sitting in Kisangani. The accused soldiers were ...