The authorities have declared 1 February a public holiday in the capital Kinshasa, a decision aimed at allowing Catholic citizens to attend a mass presided over by Pope Francis at Ndolo airport

'Epicentre' of the ongoing Mpox epidemic in Africa, the country will launch the first phase of the vaccination campaign on 2 October, the government announced

The resumption of schooling in the armed crisis zones in the north-east of the country has not been guaranteed, given the difficulties of running classrooms with hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and a protest strike calling for a boycott

The government asked Japan to donate at least 2 million doses of measles vaccine

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution authorising the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo MONUSCO to provide operational and logistical support to the Southern African Development Community peacekeeping mission