Much of the reporting around ebola is rife with rumours and misconceptions,writes Fiona McLysaght.

A Cork woman is helping the economy of a terror-stricken part of Africa by developing an Irish country creamery there.

Ireland has sent another 16 tonnes of life-saving supplies to the Philippines.

Soldiers and rebel forces suffered heavy casualties as they fought for a fifth day near the city of Goma, a doctor near the frontline said.

Rebels started to retreat from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern provincial capital today after an attempt to garner ammunition at the airport failed and their original pullout was postponed, a UN official said.

THE Dublin and London listed-Tullow Oil is considering legal action to establish is ownership of oil rights in the Congo.

A recruitment drive was launched today for skilled volunteers who want to be deployed to humanitarian emergencies around the world.

MORE than 80 tonnes of government aid including blankets, water tanks and tents have arrived in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

ATTACKERS hacked to death scores of people who sought refuge at a Catholic church in remote eastern Congo the day after Christmas, officials and witnesses said yesterday.

Ben Affleck has teamed up with Mick Jagger to launch a short film highlighting the plight of families in

JUST a few weeks ago, Joseph fled a militia group after living and fighting in the bush with them for a year.

Juno McEnroe reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where fighting has displaced thousands of civilians and threatens to escalate into a full-scale, bloody war.

FRANCE and the Netherlands reacted swiftly on Saturday to a newly signed peace accord in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the latter announcing millions of euro in aid to help stabilise the troubled east.

Three mass graves have been discovered in an eastern area of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the DRC formerly controlled by a rebel warlord that has been the scene of recent clashes, the United Nations said today.

UN human rights chief Louise Arbour warned yesterday that unpunished human rights violations — including “pandemic” sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo — are keeping central Africa on the brink of another major conflict.

Zimbabwe’s presidential spokesman called on African leaders not to punish him for the country’s troubles, repeating Robert Mugabe’s charges that the West was to blame.

Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have killed and eaten two silverback mountain gorillas, conservationists said today, sparking fears more of the endangered animals may have been slaughtered in the lawless region.

FORMER President Mary Robinson has appealed to the Irish public to champion the protection of women in the developing world from an increasing wave of rape and violence.

Electoral officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) backed by riot police faced down stone-throwing boycotters to allow voters a second chance, underlining the challenge to democracy in Africa: keeping ethnic, regional and political disputes from reigniting into war.

A powerful earthquake toppled homes onto children in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, killing at least two people in a region already beset by war, poverty and volcanoes.

RWANDAN Hutu rebels killed 19 civilians late last week in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Sud-Kivu province, a local government official said yesterday.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan complimented Africa on its peace efforts yesterday, but warned that the continent needed political will to achieve long-term stability.

A LACK of garda accountability, following a succession of scandals within the force, came in for heavy criticism in Amnesty International’s latest annual report.

WHAT does it take to get the Irish government to stop propping up the corrupt, morally bankrupt and warmongering Ugandan regime with annual overseas aid grants?

IT has been called the Belgian Congo, the Congo, Zaire and more recently the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

AFRICA'S new political union was launched yesterday with the continent's economic powerhouse, South Africa, firmly in the driving seat.