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Celebrating a wedding amid the Ebola outbreak: No kisses or close contact, but love lives here. Authorities have raced to slow the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo with strict measures, including by limiting public gatherings and enforcing social distancing.

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Health workers at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola outbreak labor with little pay or rest. Health workers inside the epicenter of Congo's outbreak say they are working with little pay or rest.

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Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could reach 20,000 cases without strong public health measures. The Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could grow to 20,000 cases or more, depending on how quickly infected people are isolated to slow the spread. The U.S.

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Bracketology: predict a path to World Cup victory. Click your way through the group stage and the knockouts to crown champion

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World Cup 2026: guide to all 1,248 players. Everything you need to know (and more) about every squad member. Click on the player pictures for more information

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US still talking with countries to resettle Afghans as Rubio defends entry to white South Africans. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is still in discussions with several countries to resettle more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America???s war effort.

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Spanish authorities cancel DR Congo v Chile World Cup warm-up tie over Ebola fears. A pre-World Cup friendly involving DR Congo has been cancelled by the mayor of a Spanish town after the Ebola outbreak in the African country

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Peace fails if it is not defended. The UN???s peacekeepers cannot do this alone | Jean-Pierre Lacroix. Cuts in international support threaten the work of the women and men bringing hope to the world???s most vulnerable people

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As Congo grapples with Ebola, volunteers cook up meals to support patients and health workers. Volunteers are supporting Congo's Ebola outbreak response with cooked meals in a program assisted by the U.N. food agency.

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Ebola outbreak: How health workers are treating patients and staying safe in DR Congo. There are currently no approved drugs that target Bundibugyo - the species of Ebola responsible for this outbreak.

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Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo reach 282 as survivors describe their recoveries. Congolese authorities say there are now at least 282 confirmed cases of Ebola in its ongoing outbreak.

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Ebola: Brazil monitors two patients for possible infection. If confirmed, they would be the first infection cases outside Africa, since the outbreak began in DR Congo.

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Congo. The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges???Brahmaputra rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around 220??m (720??ft). The Congo???Lualaba???Luvua???Luapula???Chambeshi River system has an overall length of 4,700??km (2,900??mi), which makes it the world's ninth-longest river. The Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River, and Lualaba is the name of the Congo River upstream of Boyoma Falls, extending for 1,800??km (1,100??mi).

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African Great Lakes. The African Great Lakes are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth; Lake Malawi, the world's fourth-largest freshwater lake by volume; and Lake Turkana, the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. Collectively, they contain 31,000??km3 (7,400??mi3) of water, which is more than either Lake Baikal or the North American Great Lakes. This total constitutes about 25% of the planet's unfrozen surface fresh water. The large rift lakes of Africa are the ancient home of great biodiversity, and 10% of the world's fish species live in this region.

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Central Bank of Congo. The Central Bank of the Congo, colloquially known by its acronym BCC, is the central bank of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its headquarters are located on Boulevard Colonel Tshatshi in Gombe, Kinshasa, surrounded by significant institutions including the Palais de la Nation, the National Library, and several government ministries.

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Lake Albert. Lake Albert, originally known as Lake Mwitanzige by the Banyoro, Nam Ovoyo Bonyo by the Alur, and temporarily as Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, is a lake located in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is Africa's sixth-largest lake and the second biggest of Uganda's Great Lakes.

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White Nile. The White Nile is a river in North and East Africa. It is the less-voluminous, but longer, of the two major tributaries of the Nile, the larger being the Blue Nile. The name "White" comes from the clay sediment carried in the water that changes the water to a pale color.

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Kinyarwanda. Kinyarwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in Uganda, where the dialect is known as Ikinyakore, Rufumbira, or Urufumbira. Kinyarwanda is universal among the native population of Rwanda and is mutually intelligible with Kirundi, the national language of neighbouring Burundi.

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Swahili. Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language of the Niger???Congo language family, originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique. Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, generally range from 150 million to 200 million. Most native speakers reside in Tanzania and Kenya.

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Mount Karisimbi. Mount Karisimbi is a stratovolcano in the Virunga Mountains on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. At 4,507 metres (14,787??ft), Karisimbi is the highest of the eight major mountains of the mountain range, which is a part of Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. Karisimbi is flanked by Mikeno to the north, Bisoke to the east and Nyiragongo to the west, on the other side of the Rift Valley. Karisimbi is the 11th highest mountain of Africa and ranked 61st by prominence.

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Kinshasa. Kinshasa, formerly named L??opoldville from 1881 to 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-growing megacities, with an estimated population of 18.5 million in 2026. It is the most densely populated city in the DRC, the third-most populous city and third-largest metropolitan area in Africa, the world's seventh-most populous city proper and fourth-most populous capital city. It is the leading economic, political, and cultural center of the DRC, housing several industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, banking, and entertainment. The city also hosts some of the DRC's significant institutional buildings, such as the People's Palace, Palace of the Nation, Constitutional Court, Court of Cassation, Council of State, African Union City, Marble Palace, Government House, Kinshasa Financial Center, and other national departments and agencies.

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.cd. .cd is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in 1997 as a replacement for the .zr (Zaire) ccTLD, which was phased out and eventually deleted in 2001.

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F??lix Tshisekedi. F??lix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo is a Congolese politician who is the fifth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving since 2019.

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Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre. Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba is a Congolese politician who was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 2019, formally establishing his government in August 2019. He has had a long political career going back to the 1970s, having held a number of ministerial cabinet posts, and was previously a professor at the University of Kinshasa since 1979. Ilunga has also been the secretary general of Congo's national railway company. He has a reputation as an experienced public servant and technocrat, as well as an ally of former president Joseph Kabila.

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