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China and the Republic of Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, have formulated “a timetable and road map” for how President Xi Jinping’s US$50 billion funding commitment will go into African infrastructure projects over the next three years. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, made the announcement in Brazzaville on Tuesday, on the second stop on his […]
Three Chinese nationals have been arrested with 12 gold bars and $800,000 (£650,000) in cash in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say. The gold and money was hidden under the seats of the vehicle they were travelling in, according to Jean Jacques Purusi, the governor of South Kivu province. He said the operation to […]
Throughout 2024, many of Africa’s crises worsened: Sudan’s civil war escalated, tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew, and militants in the Sahel continued to spread south toward coastal states. In Sudan, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rebel Rapid Support Forces has not abated. Sudanese writers have contributed […]
On Monday, December 23, 2024, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot spoke over the phone with his counterpart, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Territorial Integration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Minister reiterated France’s commitment to the DRC’s territorial integrity and expressed concern regarding the deteriorating security situation […]
In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used. Source link
A ferry overloaded with people returning home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in north-eastern Congo, leaving 38 people confirmed dead and more than 100 others missing, officials and eyewitnesses said on Saturday. Twenty people have been rescued so far. The sinking of the ferry late on Friday came less than four days after […]
Seventeen Chinese men have been arrested on suspicion of running an illegal gold mine in Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said there on Friday, as the government pressed on with a crackdown on unlicensed extraction of its minerals. The men were brought into the press conference called to announce their detention in Bukavu, the main […]
Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus. Source link
PARIS, Dec 17 (Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple AAPL.O subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain, lawyers for the Congolese government told Reuters. Source link
Secondo la Asl Toscana è “altamente improbabile che il paziente ricoverato e dimesso dall’ospedale di Lucca possa essere il primo caso della nuova malattia correlata a quella che si presume possa esserci in Congo”. È “altamente improbabile che “si tratti di un primo caso della nuova malattia correlata a quella che si presume possa esserci […]