Business
Congo cuts a $1,200 truck toll to $250, and Kalemie's traders roll
The fee on the 430km Manono–Kalemie road has fallen by about 80%, and drivers say they now make twice as many trips.
Central Africa
DR Congo
The latest news from DR Congo: politics, business, technology, culture, sport and more.
Business
Maniema readies local firms for its tin mining boom
Cassiterite production is due to start in 2027, and the DRC's subcontracting regulator wants Congolese companies ready for the contracts.
Health
Nine people beat Ebola in a week at Butembo's Katwa centre
Among them were a 27-year-old health worker and a nine-year-old girl, discharged from the treatment centre run by Medair.
Sport
Maniema Union reach the group stage for a third year running
The Kindu club beat Kabuscorp 4-1 in Kinshasa, 8-2 on aggregate; TP Mazembe fell to Club Africain in the Champions League.
Health
Congo vaccinates the first volunteer in its 'Tumaini' Ebola trial
Led by Congo's INRB, the trial in Bunia will test several vaccines against the Bundibugyo strain, for which no approved vaccine yet exists.
Sport
Kinshasa hosts a record African boxing championship
A record 38 countries and more than 400 boxers are expected at the 22nd African Elite Boxing Championships, and the home team says it intends to stay top of the table.
Sport
Congo's clubs head to Brazzaville for Basketball Africa League qualifiers
BC SCTP returns to African competition after 20 years, while CNSS and Hatari chase places in the women's league, from 24 to 28 October.
Business
Kinshasa to get 490 more buses this year, with work on an airport rapid-transit line from January
Transport minister Jean-Pierre Bemba told the Senate the "Esprit de vie" buses are already in Kinshasa and Matadi, and that work on 18 elevated bridges along Boulevard Lumumba should start in January.
Sport
Mazembe held 1-1 by Club Africain, with everything to play for in Tunis
Josué Kazema headed the Congolese side in front in Lubumbashi before a 39th-minute equaliser in the first leg of the Champions League's last qualifying round.
Sport
Congo's "King Kong" Kubanza knocks out his opponent in 96 seconds
Éliezer Kubanza stopped the American Trey Waters in the first round at a PFL event in Chicago.
Health
Beni starts vaccinating its Ebola frontline workers
Health workers, burial teams and laboratory staff in North Kivu's provisional capital are the first to get the Ervebo vaccine, as Congo widens a response that began in Kisangani and Bunia.
Sport
Two Congolese players give Sunderland its first European away win in 53 years
Jules Ahoka equalised on 67 minutes and Noah Sadiki won it in stoppage time at Torreense, on the opening day of the Europa League.
Business
Congo switches on a 430MW solar park in its copper heartland
The first phase of the Kamoa-Kakula solar park in Kolwezi was paid for entirely with private money. The regulator says what worked there can work elsewhere in the country.
Health
Africa CDC cannot trace $700m given for Congo's Ebola response
Donors say they paid out $962 million; a joint check found just over $200 million reached the groups running the response. Fewer than 30% of partners came to account for it.
Health
Every Ebola dollar must be traceable, Africa's health agency says
Donors have pledged $2.9bn for the outbreak in DR Congo. Africa CDC is backing Kinshasa's demand that every organisation report what it received and spent.
Health
Ebola has left 1,900 Congolese children without a parent
Children are a quarter of the cases but a third of the deaths. Among the under-fives who catch it, seven in ten die.
Politics
Kabila says DR Congo 'is no longer a republic'
In a video address, the former president accused his successor of personal rule and called for a national dialogue to end the war in the east.
Health
Bundibugyo: the Ebola strain with no vaccine
The virus behind the outbreak in DR Congo is a rarer cousin of the one the world learned to vaccinate against. Here is what is known about it.
Health
Ebola: 8,728 cases, and most deaths are outside clinics
The World Health Organization's latest count from DR Congo shows about 72 new cases a day. Of 379 recent deaths, 264 happened in the community.
Health
Congolese scientist Jean-Jacques Muyembe receives the 2026 Virchow Prize in Berlin
Fifty years after he confronted the first Ebola outbreak in Yambuku, the Congolese virologist is honoured alongside Peter Piot with one of global health's most prestigious awards — a recognition of African scientific leadership.
Politics
Kaniola–Nindja: Walungu remembers its dead and demands peace, justice and reparations
As survivors gather to honour the victims of the Kaniola and Nindja massacres, Patricia Maisha, candidate for national deputy for Walungu, calls for an end to fear and impunity in a territory where civilians are still being killed.
Politics
Food aid for Congolese refugees in Burundi could stop without $30 million, WFP says
The UN food agency needs about $5 million a month to keep feeding people who fled eastern DR Congo. Refugees at Busuma camp already receive the equivalent of $12 each a month.
Culture
A Congolese photographer puts the women history left out back in the frame
Pamela Tulizo's series Mababu uses costume and staged scenes to portray African women who resisted slavery and colonisation.
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