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The Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Mr. Yannick Glemarec, who is on a working visit to Brazzaville, has announced that the organization will in 2020 hold a dialogue workshop with a view to identifying priority projects in the fight against climate change in the Congo River Basin.
The 8th Summit of the African Union High-Level Committee on Libya opens this Thursday, January 30 in Brazzaville, to make the voice of Africa heard and update the African Union (AU) roadmap for the Libyan crisis.
At least six people including five “Bakata Katanga” militiamen and a civilian died Friday in Lubumbashi, the second largest city in southern DR Congo, following clashes that occurred early in the morning between the police and militiamen, who launched their attack in the Luwowoshi district of the city, the Katanga provincial minister of Interior and the mayor of the city said in a report.
Fifty people have died after a train derailed in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, Steve Mbikayi, the Minister of Humanitarian Action and National Solidarity confirmed.
The Ebola epidemic continues to wreak havoc in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 2000 people have died out of a total of 3000 cases, APA learned on Friday from media sources.
The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sylvestre Ilunga, on Monday, announced the list of 65-member Government set up seven months after the swearing-in of Felix Tshisekedi as president.
The Japanese government says it will dispatch a team to the Democratic Republic of Congo to assess the extent of the havoc unleashed by ebola epidemic currently blighting the country.
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has lingered for 11 months with 2532 confirmed cases and 1705 deaths, Director of the Africa Center for Disease Control (CDC) has said.
Ebola cases have dipped slightly in the past weeks in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the decline should be interpreted with extreme caution, due to the complex environment and fragile security situation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement Friday.
The first Tripartite meeting among Rwanda, Angola and the Democratoc republic of Congo (DRC), was launched on Friday to promote cooperation among three countries, an official source confirmed to APA in Kigali.