At just 14 years old, Celestin Nahimana was forcibly recruited by the genocidal militia FDLR in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). For years, he endured mistreatment, was ...

Health facilities have reported a rise in rape cases with children accounting for 30 percent of those treated. Concerns of ...

Darkuna is a pseudonym for the teenager, who provided this testimony to the United Nations’ children’s agency UNICEF via a ...

The outbreak began in January, with 419 cases recorded so far, and comes after another mystery illness killed 143 in December ...

The children had reportedly eaten a bat carcass ... in December 2024 in the southwest region of Democratic Republic of Congo. An investigation at the time found that acute respiratory infections ...

Health officials do not know the cause of the outbreaks, or whether the cases in the two remote villages are related ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the worst conflict-affected countries to be a child. Today, the number of people in the DRC facing extreme hunger is among the highest in the world.

World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after reportedly eating a bat carcass.

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

The United Nations says Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the ...