Tag: DRC
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Nigeria’s D’tigress defeat Congo in FIBA Women’s Afrobasket opener
The defending champions of the FIBA Women’s Afrobasket Championship, D’Tigress of Nigeria, started their quest to win a record fourth title in a row in a blistering and devastating form as they destroy the ladies from the Democratic Republic of Congo by 69-35 points on Friday.
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Musings on man and wars of madness – By Dennis Onakinor
It is a tragic irony that humans, who are endowed with unrivalled natural intelligence, are the only earthly creatures possessing the unenviable ability to deliberately destroy, in a matter of seconds, the developmental structures they had painstakingly built over the ages, using their vaunted weapons of war.
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UN Secretary-General condemns attack on peacekeepers in DRC
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned Friday’s attack on UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which left one Pakistani blue helmet dead. “The secretary-general recalls that attacks against United Nations peacekeepers may constitute a war crime under international law. “He calls on the Congolese authorities to investigate this incident and…
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Ebola virus breaks out in central Uganda
Uganda health ministry on Tuesday announced that the deadly Ebola virus has broken out in the central part of the country. According to local authorities, a person was admitted at Mubende regional referral hospital on Sept. 15 after presenting Ebola symptoms and died on Sept. 19. The authorities said six other deaths are being investigated…
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DRC declares new Ebola outbreak in Mbandaka – WHO
World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Saturday declared an outbreak of Ebola in Mbandaka, a city in the north-western Equateur Province. WHO, in a statement, stated that DRC declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case was confirmed in the city on April…
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Helicopter crash: UN confirms death of 8 peacekeepers
UN on Tuesday confirmed that eight peacekeepers on board the helicopter that crashed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR) died. UN Spokesperson, Mr Stephane Dujarric, in a statement, said no one survived the crash. “With deep sadness we confirm that there are no survivors among the eight peacekeepers who were on board the…
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JUST IN: Fresh case of Ebola hits DRC amid COVID-19 pandemic
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, has confirmed a case of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after 52 days without a case. The UN’s health agency disclosed this on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Friday. “One new case of Ebola was confirmed today by surveillance and response…
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WHO raises alarm as Ebola death toll in DRC hits 1,540
The death toll in the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 1,540, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). In an update on Friday, the world health body said 2,284 people had been infected since the outbreak in the country’s Ituri and North Kivu provinces nearly 11…
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Uganda opens Ebola treatment units at border with DRC
Uganda has opened two Ebola treatment units in the border districts with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said. Yonas Woldemariam, WHO Representative in Uganda, told Xinhua that the two treatment units have been established in the western border districts of Kasese and Bundibugyo to respond to any deadly…
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Fresh Ebola outbreak: Officials confirm death of 17 persons
Health officials have now confirmed the death of 17 persons in a fresh Ebola outbreak that occurred in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the ninth time Ebola has been recorded in the central African nation, whose eastern Ebola river gave the deadly virus its name when it was discovered there in the 1970s,…