Politics
School meals bring children back to class in the Central African Republic
More than 250,000 children eat at school in 335 schools. In one village enrolment has nearly doubled, and the food is bought from local farmers.
Region
Central Africa
The latest reporting from Central Africa.
Health
Africa CDC cannot trace $700m given for Congo's Ebola response
Donors say they paid out $962 million; a joint check found just over $200 million reached the groups running the response. Fewer than 30% of partners came to account for it.
Health
Every Ebola dollar must be traceable, Africa's health agency says
Donors have pledged $2.9bn for the outbreak in DR Congo. Africa CDC is backing Kinshasa's demand that every organisation report what it received and spent.
Health
Ebola has left 1,900 Congolese children without a parent
Children are a quarter of the cases but a third of the deaths. Among the under-fives who catch it, seven in ten die.
Politics
Burundi heads back to UN rights council unopposed
Four African countries are standing for four African seats in Monday's vote. Human Rights Watch says a contest with no losers is not an election.
Politics
Kabila says DR Congo 'is no longer a republic'
In a video address, the former president accused his successor of personal rule and called for a national dialogue to end the war in the east.
Health
Ebola: 8,728 cases, and most deaths are outside clinics
The World Health Organization's latest count from DR Congo shows about 72 new cases a day. Of 379 recent deaths, 264 happened in the community.
Health
Bundibugyo: the Ebola strain with no vaccine
The virus behind the outbreak in DR Congo is a rarer cousin of the one the world learned to vaccinate against. Here is what is known about it.
Health
Congolese scientist Jean-Jacques Muyembe receives the 2026 Virchow Prize in Berlin
Fifty years after he confronted the first Ebola outbreak in Yambuku, the Congolese virologist is honoured alongside Peter Piot with one of global health's most prestigious awards — a recognition of African scientific leadership.
Politics
Kaniola–Nindja: Walungu remembers its dead and demands peace, justice and reparations
As survivors gather to honour the victims of the Kaniola and Nindja massacres, Patricia Maisha, candidate for national deputy for Walungu, calls for an end to fear and impunity in a territory where civilians are still being killed.
Politics
Rwandan genocide suspect Callixte Mbarushimana dies in France without facing trial
The former UN employee and senior figure in the FDLR militia was 63. A French investigation into him had been reopened last year after an appeal by survivors' groups.
Politics
Food aid for Congolese refugees in Burundi could stop without $30 million, WFP says
The UN food agency needs about $5 million a month to keep feeding people who fled eastern DR Congo. Refugees at Busuma camp already receive the equivalent of $12 each a month.
Politics
African Union mediators meet M23 in Goma as Kenyatta consults Kigali
Three former presidents visited the rebel-held city on Monday. A day later Uhuru Kenyatta was in Rwanda to discuss how to move two parallel peace tracks forward.
Culture
A Congolese photographer puts the women history left out back in the frame
Pamela Tulizo's series Mababu uses costume and staged scenes to portray African women who resisted slavery and colonisation.
Business
In Libreville, drivers queue for hours as diesel runs short
Fuel has been rationed in Gabon's capital since late September. The government calls it a temporary disruption; station managers say deliveries keep coming up short.
Health
Street medicine is booming in Central Africa. A UN report says weak health systems are why.
More than 250 tonnes of medical products were seized in five countries in six years. Where a pharmacy is too far or too expensive, the UN finds, illicit sellers fill the gap.
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