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Sep152020 by Abel Kawere & keefa NuwaherezaNo Comments

118 Ebola Cases Detected in DR Congo

At least 118 Ebola virus cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. Ebola, a tropical fever that first appeared in 1976 in Sudan and the DRC, is transmitted to humans from wild animals. So far there are 118 cases, with 112 confirmed and six probables, 48 deaths and 52 recoveries in the 11th Ebola virus outbreak in Mbandaka, Equateur province, the WHO African Region tweeted. More than 25,000 people have been vaccinated against Ebola virus in Equateur since June, including many frontline health workers, according to the UN health agency. For several months, the DRC has been battling with several diseasing including, cholera, Ebola, measles, as well as coronavirus. Spread beyond bo...

Sep132020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

At least 50 Feared Dead in DR Congo Mine Collapse

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Makeshift mine collapses in the town of Kamituga in South Kivu province following heavy rains in the eastern region. At least 50 people are feared dead after a gold mine collapsed in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), local authorities have said. The accident in the makeshift mine occurred on Friday about 3pm local time (13:00 GMT) following heavy rains in the town of Kamituga in South Kivu province. Provincial governor Theo Ngwabije Kasi deplored "the tragic deaths of 50 people, most of them young". Kamituga Mayor Alexandre Bundya blamed "soil subsidence caused by torrential rain" for the accident and said "the exact number of victims" was not yet known. He declared a two-day mourning period and urged local residents to help extract the bodies fr...

Sep112020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Suspected Militia Fighters Kill Dozens in DR Congo’s Eastern Ituri Province

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Fifty-eight people have been killed in attacks in a restive province of eastern DR Congo, local officials said on Thursday, blaming a notorious militia. Large numbers of the population have fled following the attacks in Irumu, a territory in the province of Ituri, provincial interior minister Adjio Gidi told AFP. He blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which originated in the 1990s as a Ugandan Muslim rebel group and has been accused of killing hundreds of civilians since DR Congo’s armed forces launched a crackdown against them last November. The attacks took place in a heavily forested area called Tshabi, a local resident said, adding that a number of people were feared kidnapped. “People were killed with every sort of weapon, knives, guns,” a member of ...

Aug12020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Shock As Drunken Soldier Shoots 12 Civilians Dead

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By Our Reporter A soldier in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has shot dead at least 12 people and wounded nine others in a drunken rampage, regional authorities have said. Security services are conducting a search for the gunman in the city of Sange, 24km (15 miles) from the Burundi border, where the shooting took place, the governor of South Kivu province, Theo Kasi, said in a statement on Friday. "The person responsible is a drunken member of the FARDC (DR Congo armed forces) who opened fire on at least 20 civilians who crossed his path," a prosecutor in Uvira said. Captain Dieudonne Kasereka, the army's spokesman in Uvira, said the gunman was on the run and is still armed. "An army delegation and a UN team is in the area to calm the population, which is demo...

Jul112020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

3 Dead As DR Congo Protests Against Kabila Protege Turn Violent

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By Elite News Reporter The police shot two people dead and several others sustained injuries after violent protests broke out in several cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)on Thursday, as Congolese protested against the appointment of the head of the Electoral Commission. Police used teargas and live ammunition to disperse thousands of supporters of President Felix Tshisekedi and democracy campaigners as they rallied through the streets of the capital, Kinshasa, as well as Lubumbashi, Goma and several smaller towns. Protesters running through the streets of Kinshasa The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) said it was "concerned about the use of lethal force by law enforcement" which led to the death of two protesters - one in Kinshasa and one in...

May282020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Over 40 Civilians Slaughtered In By ADF Rebels Near Uganda-DR Congo Border

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By Elite Reporter More than 40 innocent civilians were slaughtered in the latest DR Congo massacre after Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels attacked the village of Samboko in Ituri province, on Tuesday night, killing dozens using machetes, according to human rights groups in the war-torn country. The Democratic Republic of the Congo's army launched an offensive to oust the armed group from its bases in the northeast last year after their constant attacks on civilians in the mountainous jungles near the Ugandan border. Fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) group, which was driven out of Uganda in the late 1990s, attacked Samboko village, about 100km (60 miles) southwest of the city of Bunia, Omar Kavota from rights group CEPADHO said on Wednesday. “A day aft...

Apr62020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Fear In Uganda As Coronavirus Ravages DR Congo, With 23 Deaths And Scores Of Confirmed Unreported Cases

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By Elite Reporter The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the African countries that have been hit hard by the deadly Coronavirus pandemic, with 23 deaths recorded so far and several other confirmed cases of infection. Authorities in Kinshasa reveal that Twenty three (23) COVID-19 cases have been recorded so far, and countless others have verbally and locally reported in DRC's Beni (Eastern DRC), which is two hours away from Mpondwe Border, Kasese, Western Uganda, which is raising fear among Ugandans. However, according to local authorities in Kasese district, a one Saturday Musolho, who is a staunch National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobiliser, continues to take cattle for sale into Beni escorted by two Police pick-ups full of armed Police personnel. Ques...

Mar162020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Fear As Ugandan Tour Guide Is Quarantined Over Coronavirus, Infections In E. Africa Rise

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By Keefa Nuwahereza Uganda is on high alert for any suspected coronavirus case and as you read this, a tour guide was on Sunday quarantined in Kanungu after beings suspected of having contracted the deadly COVID-19. According to Kanungu District Health Inspector the suspect (Names withheld on request) is a tour guide and resident of Kameme in Kihihi Sub-county, Kanungu District. The Suspected patient is reported to have started feeling unwell on March 11th 2020 but reported himself to the facility on Saturday March 14th, 2020. The Kanungu Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Hajji Shaffique Ssekandi revealed reporter that he had heard some information about the case and referred the reporter to Kato Besisira, the District Health Inspector. On being contacted, Besisira, who ...

Mar102020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

‘Zombo Barracks Attackers Were From DR Congo’-UPDF

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By Elite Reporter The Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) high command has revealed that the gang of insurgents that attacked the UPDF barracks in Zombo district on March 6, 2020, are based in the Democratic Republic of Congo According to a statement issued by the UPDF and signed by the Deputy Spokesman Lt Col Deo Akiiki, the army denied some media reports which insinuated that the attackers were trained in Kiryadongo District. Akiiki stated that the story in New Vision of Monday 9th 2020, on page 4 was not authentic. He put it clearly that attackers numbering to 80, were mobilised from Paidha, Nyapea, Zeu , Zaale, Songoli, Atyak and a few from Warr and were armed with Spears, Pangas , bows and arrows, before the attack. UPDF statement about the Zombo Detach attack ...

Mar22020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

President Tshisekedi Orders Investigation Into Murder Of Army Spy Chief Kahimbi

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By Elite Reporter President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered the army to conduct an investigation into the murder of former military spy Chief Delphin Kahimbi, who was one of the most powerful figures during Joseph Kabila's 18 years in power. Kahimbi was found dead at his home in the capital, Kinshasa, on Friday, the day he was meant to appear before the country's Security Council. He was to answer to allegations that he was involved in a plot to destabilise President Tshisekedi’s government. Gen. Kahimbi was on an EU sanctions list for alleged human rights violations and hindering the democratic process. Tshisekedi took over from Joseph Kabila in January last year, the first peaceful transfer of power in the country in nearly 60 years ...