The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo-Brazzaville was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa. Upon independence in 1960, the former colony of French Congo became the Republic of the Congo. The People's Republic of the Congo was a Marxist–Leninist one-party state from 1970 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 Republic of the Congo Civil War and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.
Rwanda’s military said Monday that shelling of the country’s northern territory by the Armed Forces of the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (FARDC) had injured several civilians and damaged property. .
Central AfricanRepublic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Cameroon are reporting cases at the moment and there are other countries that have reported cases in the past.” Vaccination stockpile ...The first human case was identified in a child in the Democratic Republic ...
Rwanda said on Monday that it had requested a regional body to investigate shelling of its territory by the military of neighboring DemocraticRepublic of Congo and that the attack had injured several people and damaged property.� ... Congo and U.N.
A Ugandan official says a new influx of refugees from the DemocraticRepublic of Congo is stretching the country's resources to the breaking point... The Nairobi process is an effort to negotiate peace between the Democratic Republic of Congo government and about 30 rebels based across the mineral-rich African country.
"None of these people reported having recently been in central or west African countries where monkeypox usually occurs, including the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo and Nigeria, among others," the CDC said in its travel health notice ... Here's what we know ... (Cynthia S ... Democratic Republic of the Congo. Republic of the Congo. Central African Republic.
... of the Congo (DRC), and depicts the dorsal surfaces of a monkeypox case in a patient who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage ... She cited Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central AfricanRepublic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But the last presidential election in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, in 2018, heralded the first peaceful transfer of power in Kinshasa since independence from Belgium in 1960... At present, DR Congo's electoral commission publishes a single tally of results.
The United Nations force in eastern DemocraticRepublic of Congo has condemned attacks against it by M23 rebels and urged them to “immediately cease hostilities” ... Mr Ngoma accuses Monusco, the UN mission in DR Congo, of helping a coalition of the army and other ...