The Congo

Shipwrecks are recurrent on the Congo River and on the nation’s lakes because of makeshift boats that are often overloaded.

Committees set up to handle the pandemic in DR Congo "considerably increased the budget for the response without improving financial management," the report said.

The government needs more money to meet President Felix Tshisekedi’s pledges to provide free education and expand access to health care and the task of raising it has fallen to Kazadi, 55,…

This comes amid concern that the Islamic State group has been trying to strengthen ties with the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) - an Islamist armed group originally from Uganda.

Congo has experienced several outbreaks in the past, including one in 2009 that infected 214 people and caused 15 deaths, according to the WHO.

The jihadists of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are suspected to have carried out the attack in the Ituri area on Saturday, they said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the ADF could not be reached.

The victims were engulfed by a "huge fire sparked by the collision" overnight Saturday in the west of the country, local police captain Antoine Pululu told AFP.

The ambush took place in the east of the country

"It is clearly a manoeuvre by those who want to hold onto power," Olivier Kamitatu, Katumbi's spokesperson, told Reuters.