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 ...

Photo / Getty Images An unknown illness has killed 53 people in a northwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A significant portion of deaths were within 48 hours of the onset of ...

The Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 has seized swathes of mineral-rich eastern Congo since the start of the year. "M23 has taken Nyabiondo since 11 am (0900 GMT), following clashes," Kipanda Biiri, an ...

An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to doctors in the central African nation and the World Health Organization. The ...

Over 1,000 people are sick from the mystery disease, health officials said. At least 60 people have died and over 1,000 more are sick from a deadly "unknown disease" spreading in a region of the ...

Authorities investigating the deaths of at least 60 people in northwestern Congo suspect the water source in one of the areas may have been contaminated, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick. The outbreaks in two distant villages ...

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 ...