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This health structure has the particularity of treating free of charge the poorest people in the capital Kinshasa, Congo, which has one of the highest death rates from tropical diseases in Africa. “For the moment, we can accommodate 300 people per day,” said Indian businessman Harish Jagtani, owner of this …

A report by the National Observatory of Maternal, Neonatal and Infant Deaths (Odomni 2021) published on the occasion of the commemoration of World Prematurity Day indicates that the Republic of Congo records a rate of 16.3% of premature children. According to scientists and health workers, a premature birth occurs before …

In Congo, security forces have started voting in the town of Dolisie, ahead of Wednesday’s presidential election. They are a total of 12,000 soldiers and police to vote. Congolese authorities say this would free up security forces, and allow them to focus on securing polling stations on Wednesday. But most …

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say more than 60 people have drowned after a barge capsized and sank on the Congo River. Three-hundred people have been rescued but possibly 200 others are unaccounted for following the accident. Locals said the boat hit a rock east of the capital, …

Officially invested candidate for the presidential election of March 2021, the Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso will represent his political party, the Congolese Party of Work. As part of the first extraordinary session of the Central committee of the Congolese Party of Work, the investiture of the Congolese president is …