A boat has capsized in southwestern Congo and killed 25 people, many of them soccer players, authorities said Monday. The players were returning from a match in Mushie city ...

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has offered a reward of $5m (£4m) for help arresting three leaders of a rebel ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has announced the creation of a huge new forest reserve, the size of France.

The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the ...

In response to this development, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has adapted by deploying mobile ...

A relatively sedate Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing for National Institutes of Health Director-nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya revealed his five goals to ...

The CDC is closely monitoring an "unknown disease” that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency ...

Muslims in a city recently captured by Rwanda-backed fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo face a more subdued ...

The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents ...

Conditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the ...

On Saturday, renowned geneticist and former longtime NIH director Francis Collins announced that he has retired, leaving an ...