For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much uncertainty.

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much uncertainty.

Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.”

In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used.

In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency.

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