Kinshasa, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | Equity BCDC Managing Director, Willy Mulamba, has painted a rich picture of DRC’s economic potential for delegates attending the 3rd trade mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. “DRC is a country rich in resources and opportunities and …
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Kinshasa, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 250 delegates drawn from the host country DRC as well as Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are in Kinshasa for a business-to-business conference to deepen understanding of trade in the region. Delegates attending the third Trade Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo jetted into …
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North Kivu, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) have spoken out on a road crash involving soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). UPDF’s response comes on a picture that shows that several soldiers had perished in a road crash that occurred at Beni-Biakato road. …
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Kinshasa, DRC | ALL AFRICA.COM | President Félix Tshisekedi announced that a commission would draft the DR Congo’s new Constitution next year, reports RFI, as the current one is “not good” and “written in a foreign country”. Tshisekedi was addressing the nation from Kisangani in the Tshopo Province, where he also …
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Goma, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Democratic Republic of Congo authorities have confirmed that 23 people have died after MV Merdi capsized into Lake Kivu in North Kivu province on Thursday. The boat that was carrying over 300 people and cargo was heading to Kituku port near Goma …
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The decision is a crucial step in getting shots to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of the outbreak ANALYSIS | STEPHANIE NOLEN | The World Health Organization has given its authorization to a first vaccine to protect against mpox, a decision announced in such haste on Friday that it …
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Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials from Uganda’s Ministry of Internal Affairs have held a high-profile meeting with their Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) counterparts to discuss means of resolving border boundary conflict along eastern Rutshuru territory and the southwestern Ugandan district of Kisoro. Ugandan officials were led by Colonel …
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Health officials in Uganda told Global Press Journal to ignore information provided by health workers at the border. Munigi, DRC | Apophia Agiresaasi,Nakisanze Segawa & Noella Nyirabihogo Global Press Journal Uganda | Esther Mwema assumed her 4-year-old son had chicken pox. He was lucky enough to get a medical exam at this camp for …
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NAIROBI, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenya’s military said Sunday its troops have departed for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to join a United Nations peacekeeping force tasked with calming deadly tensions fuelled by armed groups. The Kenya Defense Force (KDF) said the first batch of the fourth contingent …
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COMMENT | PROF FREDDY R KANIKI | At the end of June in 1945, on a clear and unseasonably cool day in San Francisco, California, fifty nations gathered with shared hope born of a shared trauma. Representatives of these nations gathered at the San Francisco Opera House with a single …
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