An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

Health authorities in Uganda say Ebola cases in the country have risen to nine while 265 other people are being monitored under quarantine. The nine cases include the first victim who was a male nurse ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo have sought to reassure its residents about their safety ...

The rebels were now about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from South Kivu's provincial capital of Buakavu and “seem to be moving quite fast,” U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said at a ...

The Level 4 travel ban, the highest of the country's four-scale travel warning system, will take effect Saturday for the Central African country's North Kivu Province, according to the ministry. South ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.

In areas under M23 control in South Kivu, such as Minova, he said the group had "occupied schools and hospitals, forced IDPs out of camps and subjected the civilian population to forced ...

Advertisement M23's advances have primarily come in the Congo province of South Kivu, which shares a border to the east with both Burundi and Rwanda. Rwanda has continually denied any affiliation ...

However, contact tracing could be challenging as Kampala, where the latest Ebola infection cropped up, is a crowded city of over 4 million people and a crossroads for traffic to South Sudan, Congo, ...

MONUSCO withdrew last year from South Kivu under a revised Security Council mandate at the request of the DRC government. Dujarric said clashes are reported between the rebel M23 and the Congolese ...

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations is "deeply concerned" by the M23 rebel group advancing towards South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a UN spokesman ...

A sustained and successful push by M23 into the neighbouring province of South Kivu would see them control territory previous rebellions have not taken since the end of two major wars that ran ...