Democratic Republic of Congo

African Union (AU) member-states including Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Malawi and Senegal have agreed to actively further the implementation of the Common African Position on Asset Recovery (CAPAR) Working Group.…

Airtel Africa Plc has announced the purchase of 58 MHz of the additional spectrum spread across 900, 1800, 2100 and 2600 MHz bands in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for $42 million to expand its 4G services. Airtel on Monday said…

Gradually, like a chameleon, President Muhammadu Buhari is morphing into the colour of Rwandan President, Paul Kagame. No, not the widely known colour of the developmental strides associated with Kagame. The brutal dictatorship veneer that…

TAYO ELEGBEDE Mini grids offer the best opportunity for African's 600 million unenergised population to be powered, a new report has revealed. The new report titled Africa Minigrid Benchmarking Report said up to 600 million…

Nearly 50 million Africans could be driven into extreme poverty in the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said Tuesday. Roughly a third of the continent — 425 million people — was already…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) says its COVID-19 emergency packages have reached five geographic regions in Africa. The AfDB’s Communications and External Relations Department made this known in a statement on Saturday. The bank…

DR Congo reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in its northwest on Monday, the latest health emergency for a country already fighting an epidemic of the deadly fever in the east as well as a surging number of coronavirus infections. The 11th …

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday announced the partial reopening for pedestrians, a border post with Zambia. This followed a day’s demonstration against this preventive measure taken in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The…

Gabon and Ghana have confirmed their first cases of coronavirus. With the latest development, 10 countries have recorded positive cases in sub-Saharan Africa. Gabon being the ninth and Ghana, the tenth to record positive cases in…

As the world grapples with the spread of novel coronavirus, in remote western DR Congo, officials are fighting a deadly outbreak of measles. More than 6,000 people have died from measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a year, the…