# congo - Thursday 17 May, 2018
The number of reported cases is 42, including two confirmed.
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# congo - Tuesday 8 May, 2018
Ebola is one of the world’s most notorious diseases, being both highly infectious and extremely lethal.
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# congo - Friday 13 April, 2018
The UN has described the crisis as the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in the world.
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# congo - Sunday 11 February, 2018
Jenifer Williams lives in Dublin but grew up in the Congo, she described it as “a ground of no mercy”.
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# congo - Thursday 28 December, 2017
The UN has described the situation in DR Congo as the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in the world.
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# congo - Sunday 1 October, 2017
Activist group Survival said “green colonialism” is not just destroying lives but also harming conservation.
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# congo - Saturday 25 June, 2016
The country’s justice minister said the group’s leader told them they had to rape very young girls to be assured of supernatural protection.
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# congo - Tuesday 21 June, 2016
Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba was jailed for a series of brutal rapes and murders in CAR over a decade ago.
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# congo - Monday 21 March, 2016
The International Criminal Court has convicted Jean-Pierre Bemba on five charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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# congo - Tuesday 5 January, 2016
It’s hoped the 8-year-old will once again be able to open and close his mouth, and eat and talk properly.
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# congo - Thursday 15 January, 2015
Congo are still looking for a hotel two days before the event starts.
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# congo - Saturday 15 November, 2014
The country’s health minister said this does not mean they are completely out of danger.
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# congo - Sunday 19 October, 2014
Maureen Devlin was living in the Congo with her parents when the incident occurred.
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# congo - Saturday 18 October, 2014
In 1976 a young Belgian doctor ventured across what was then Zaire to find the source of the infection.
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# congo - Monday 25 August, 2014
That’s about 3,000 km away from the West African epidemic.
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# congo - Thursday 21 August, 2014
Ebola first appeared in 1976. The current outbreak has killed more than 1,300 people, with experts warning it could take six months to bring under control.
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# congo - Tuesday 27 May, 2014
The talented teenage full-back has learned to laugh off abuse on the pitch after an incident last year.
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# congo - Monday 12 May, 2014
Kilkenny’s Richard Mosse was this evening announced as the winner of Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
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# congo - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
The train crashed in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bodies are being being buried after being taken from the wreckage, as there is no morgue in the area….
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# congo - Wednesday 16 April, 2014
Emmanuel de Merode is a prominent conservationist in the Congo.
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# congo - Saturday 30 November, 2013
Edmond Lukusa will represent the party in the Mulhuddart ward in Blanchardstown.
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# congo - Saturday 25 May, 2013
Yes, Africa faces huge challenges, but it is also making remarkable progress and Ireland played its part in that, writes TD Joe Costello.
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# congo - Monday 18 March, 2013
The announcement was welcomed by NGOs working in the region as well as Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.
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# congo - Sunday 17 March, 2013
Blessing the shamrock, a fun run and a feed of Irish stew are among the activities our troops are getting up to this weekend.
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# congo - Friday 22 February, 2013
Eleven African countries have been invited to sign a UN-brokered accord aiming to end more than two decades of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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# congo - Friday 4 January, 2013
Rebels are meeting with the Congolese government in Uganda for peace talks – in a bid to end the long-running conflict that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
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# congo - Saturday 1 December, 2012
The plane skidded off the runway and crashed into houses and a bar in the Congolese capital before crashing into a ravine.
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# congo - Friday 30 November, 2012
The UK is to withhold million in aid over concerns that Rwanda is supporting of rebels country, which is in the midst of an increasingly violent conflict.
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# congo - Thursday 22 November, 2012
A rebel group seeking to overthrow the Congolese government makes gains, and millions of civilians are displaced by the conflict.
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# congo - Tuesday 10 July, 2012
Thomas Lubanga was found guilty of recruiting and using children and sending them to kill and be killed during fighting in the Congo.
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# congo - Friday 15 June, 2012
Simultaneous commemorations being held around the country on 8 July.
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# congo - Wednesday 14 March, 2012
Thomas Lubanga has been found guilty of conscripting and enlisting children to fight for him.
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# congo - Sunday 4 March, 2012
All the day’s main news stories, plus the bits and pieces you may have missed along the way.
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A munitions depot in Brazzaville caught fire, officials have said.
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# congo - Friday 27 January, 2012
“I signed a new deal last January because Venky’s told me they had big plans. It hasn’t happened.”
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# congo - Tuesday 6 December, 2011
Various lobby and protest groups held demonstrations in Dublin today, to coincide with the Budget announcements. Here’s a sample.
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# congo - Friday 2 December, 2011
At least 18 people have been killed and 100 seriously injured in election violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, according to Human Rights Watch.
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# congo - Sunday 27 November, 2011
The election is almost certainly expected to return President Joseph Kibala to power, analysts say.
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Nine things to know on this Sunday morning…
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# congo - Monday 19 September, 2011
Armed men burst into the pub in the central African nation of Burundi, with one yelling “make sure there’s no survivors”, according to witnesses.
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