An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to doctors in the country and global health authorities. The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases,

MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.

The rapidly evolving war in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has intensified since December 2024, displacing hundreds of thousands of people

Until now, the international response to the rapidly escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed a litany of grave abuses, has been all talk and no action.