Zanzibar, Tanzania | UN | A year on from the brutal killings of 15 United Nations peacekeepers from Tanzania in the Democratic Republic Of The Congo (DRC), the head of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) paid a visit to some of the victims’ families on Friday, to honour the memory of the soldiers who died in what was the biggest single loss of ‘blue helmets’ in recent history.
Founded in 1983, ECCAS includes Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo and São Tomé and Príncipe as its members.
A baby girl who was diagnosed with Ebola when she was only six days old has survived, health officials in the Democratic Republic Of The Congo have confirmed.
Patrice Lumumba (1925-61), Congolese statesman and first prime minister of Democratic Republic Of The Congo (now Zaire – 1960) was assassinated in 1961 mainly on account of his anti-colonial steadfastness – which spoke volumes of the loveliness of the colour of Africa’s courage and its rising sun.
Hundreds of health workers in South Sudan will be given Ebola vaccinations amid fears the virus will spread from the Democratic Republic Of The Congo.
The 2018 Goal Keepers Report released by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, notes that by 2050, more than 40 per cent of the extremely poor people in the world would be living in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic Of The Congo.
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Joseph Kabila, the outgoing president of the Democratic Republic Of The Congo (DRC), has said he plans to stay in politics and does not rule out running again for the top job in 2023.