By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Actualité.cd
Wikimedia Commons · Usage libreNine cases of cholera have been detected in the central prison in Walikale, in North Kivu, DR Congo. The information was reported by Actualité.cd on 27 October; the cases concern this prison.
Sixteen-year-old Congolese fencer Mervie Yembele is one of the nine athletes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo selected for the Dakar Youth Olympic Games. He trains in sabre in Kinshasa and is preparing to compete in his first Games, scheduled for 31 October to 13 November, RFI reports.
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New clashes have pitted the Front for the Refounding of the Nation against the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and their allies in the Gipimo area, in Fizi territory, South Kivu. Fighters were reported there on Monday 26 October 2026, reports Kivu Morning Post.
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The former president of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, was arrested on 23 October in Kinshasa, where more than 30 soldiers were reportedly deployed. Opposition politician Salomon Kalonda condemned the detention, according to Radio France Internationale, although the arrest had already been reported on 23 October.
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A detainee died on 23 October at Bulungu Central Prison in Kwilu, where more than 90 detainees are reportedly seriously ill for lack of food and medicine. Local civil society president Me Dirigeant Munzende says the prison has received no subsidy from the central government for at least nine months and is calling for urgent intervention.
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Kinshasa considers Senegalese partnership to improve sanitationKinshasa governor Daniel Bumba Lubaki met officials from EDE International, a Senegalese engineering firm specialising in water and sanitation, in Dakar to explore a partnership. Talks focus in particular on waste management and urban infrastructure in the Congolese capital, according to the Senegalese Press Agency.
Borr Prospector 5 sinking: missing person presumed dead in GabonOne of the five people still missing after the Borr Prospector 5 sank off Mayumba is believed to have died, potentially bringing the death toll to two. Search operations are continuing in the area of the sinking, according to a briefing at the Nazaire Boulingui Naval Base.The week in Africa
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