50,000 doses of smallpox vaccine from the United States have arrived a week after the arrival of a first batch from the European Union, Congolese authorities said. Adults in Équateur, Sud-Kivu and Sankuru, the three provinces most affected, will be vaccinated first, starting on October 2, said Cris Kacita Osako, …
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Fighting resumed on Sunday August 25 between M23 rebels and the Congolese army in eastern DRC, Lubero, a townclose to the border with Uganda. In a statement issued on Monday August 26, the Congolese army claimed that rebels had attacked its positions in the village of Kikubo, violating a ceasefire …
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Six Chinese miners and two Congolese soldiers had been killed in a militia attack on a gold mine in northeastern Congo. This is the latest attack as violence intensifies in this resource-rich region. According to Jean Robert Basiloko, a member of a local civil society association, the village of Gambala …
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