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The DR Congo won on Thursday against Equatorial Guinea at the Martyrs' stadium in Kinshasa for the first day of the E-group counting for the CAN 2027 playoffs. With a goal inscribed in each period, the Leopards left no chance at the Nzalang Nacional in this meeting.
At the end of the 19th century, the regime of Leopold II, king of the Belgians, imposed forced labour on the Congo to extract the precious rubber from the forests. An undertaking marked by violence and horror, documented by missionary Alice Seeley Harris. Discover her story.
Belgium and Rwanda have restored diplomatic relations after an 18-month rupture over the war in eastern DR Congo.
In tonight's edition: TPLF fighters take over the airport in Tigray amid escalating conflict with federal troops. But first, concerns about South Africa's high rates of crimes are brought even more into focus as 11 people are killed at a party. And in eastern DR Congo, residents of Bukavu are once again searching through the ruins of their homes after another deadly fire.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the ruling majority activists marched in mass to support President Félix Tshisekedi. A mobilization organised a week after the opposition. Displayed objective: show the support of the presidential camp for the proposed constitutional change.
In DR Congo, the ruling majority activists marched in mass to support President Félix Tshisekedi. A mobilization organised a week after the opposition. Displayed objective: show the support of the presidential camp for the proposed constitutional change.
Nearly a week after the murder of activist Manassé Lomboto Bomengola during a demonstration in Kinshasa, the opposition is questioning the UDPS, the ruling party, which the latter denies. At this opposition rally, men armed with machetes targeted the demonstrators. The report of Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one week after the opposition march, questions persist about violence and the presence of machetes in the procession. The opposition claims that one person died and several injured. An investigation was ordered by the Department of Justice.
In tonight's edition: A coalition of opposition groups band together in the hope of ousting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Also, we speak to the deputy chief of the UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo. And with just a few days to go before legislative elections, young Moroccans are torn between hope and scepticism ahead of the crucial vote.
DR Congo is rolling out vaccine trials for health workers at the centre of the country’s Ebola crisis.
50,000 frontline staff to receive a jab for a different Ebola strain, with 20,000 enrolled in a one-year clinical trial.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government claims that the Ebola outbreak has changed course, with cases trending downwards in hotspots. But that interpretation is being met with pushback from experts and health responders, who say the outbreak remains as bad as ever. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent Emmet Livingstone.
Doctors Without Borders has warned against premature optimism amid the DRC's largest-ever Ebola outbreak. "The outbreak is not shrinking, it is moving," an MSF official said, entering new and more underprepared regions.
Former prisoners are deployed in Kinshasa to sanitize the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are part of the National Service, a military structure aimed at reintegrating them into society. The initiative is welcomed by local people.
