February 22 Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Italian ambassador to the DRC was killed along with two others when a U.N. convoy was attacked, according to AP News. Luca…
This Week Around the World – July 17–21
July 17 Geneva, Switzerland: The World Health Organization labeled the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as “a public health emergency of international concern” after a…
This Week Around the World – July 7–13
July 7 Frankfurt, Germany: 16,500 people were evacuated from the Ostend area of downtown Frankfurt in order to allow German authorities to defuse and dispose of an American bomb discovered…
DRC faces the world’s second-largest Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been in the midst of the world’s second worst Ebola outbreak in history since August 2018 in North Kivu, according to Doctors Without…