Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded a new wave of Ebola Cases in Mbandaka, a city in the western part of the country.

Eteni Longondo, the minister in charge of Health revealed in a press briefing that four people have died in Mbandaka after their test results were released.

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The news was also corroborated The outbreak was confirmed by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation.

He tweeted:

“This outbreak is a reminder that #COVID19 is not the only health threat people face.”

The central African country is battling to curb the Ebola outbreak which emerged two years ago around the country’s east. More than 2,200 people have since lost their lives.

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A plane crash reported to have happened in Congo claimed 26 human lives including people on board and on the ground.

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The 16 passenger plane as reported by Reuters crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday.

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Joseph Makundi, the coordinator of rescue services in Goma, told Reuters that 27 bodies had been recovered from the rubble, including those of several people hit by falling debris.

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A freight train derailed in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, killing between 10 and 50 people stowing away on-board according to conflicting reports, in the latest rail tragedy to strike the vast central African nation.

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The accident occurred when several of the train’s carriages tipped over in a remote area in Tanganyika province at around 6am (0500 GMT).

Estimates of the death toll have varied widely.

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The minister for humanitarian action, Steve Mbikayi, gave the first toll as 50 dead.

But the provincial governor, Zoe Kabila, who is the brother of former president Joseph Kabila, then tweeted: “Correction… provisional toll 10 dead, 30 injured and three rail cars overturned.”

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And the UN’s mission in DRC told AFP that Indonesian peacekeepers at the scene had identified 23 people killed and 14 wounded, as of 1500 GMT.

Such confusion about numbers is common in the conflict-riven country, where even the population of 80 million is a rough estimate – the last census was carried out in 1984.

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But witnesses at the scene have consistently said the death toll was high.

Stowaways are common on trains in DR Congo, which has only a few thousand kilometers of paved roads to cover the country’s 2.3 million square kilometers.

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With service by passenger trains patchy to non-existent, often people illegally stow away on freight trains as they have no other means to traverse such long distances.

Railways in DRC have a poor record for safety, hampered by derelict tracks and decrepit locomotives, many of them dating from the 1960’s.

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Like many state companies in DR Congo, the national rail company SNCC is on the brink of bankruptcy.

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Antonio Guterres has pledged the United Nations unflinching support for the Democratic Republic of Congo. The central African country has been ravaged by armed conflicts and the deadly Ebola epidemic.

The United Nations chief is on a three day visit to the country to have a better view of the situation on the ground. He praised the United Nations peacekeepers in the country for their courage.

He also applauded the citizenry for being strong in this hard times when the Ebola disease is killing many of their compatriots. Antonio Guterres promised the speedy distribution of the Ebola vaccine to curb the disease.

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Rwanda and DR Congo have agreed to collaborate in the fight against the Ebola virus which is wreaking havoc across eastern Africa, with DR Congo the most affected.

The two countries pledged to keep their border open whiles getting a register of people who have come into contact with Ebola victims to curb the spread.

The agreement also contain aspects of establishing a cross-border consultation framework, for surveillance and vaccination. This would ensure the smooth movement of people and goods between both countries without increasing the spread of the virus.

More than 1,600 people have been killed Ebola in DR Congo since the outbreak began in August 2018. The World Health Organisation will start distributing a vaccine whose efficacy is highly encouraging.

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