The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday that Rwanda-backed M23 rebels committed summary executions of children in Bukavu when they entered the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city.

DR Congo national football team head coach Florent Ibenge presented his resignation to the president of the Congolese Football Association (FECOFA) on Wednesday at the headquarters of the national football body. In his statement of resignation to the press, Florent Ibenge thanked all his associates at AS Vita Club who “allowed him to join the national selection.”

The DR Congo Leopards beat Kenya Morans 82-61 on Saturday in Bamako in the finals of the first edition of the FIBA AfroCan. The competition is reserved for basketball players playing on the African continent. Maxi Munanga Shamba was named MVP of the competition.

The problems of eradicating Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are not only medical, but also linked “to a variety of political and social factors”, the head of the UN mission in the country told the Security Council.

The second worst Ebola outbreak of all time, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was officially declared an international Public Health Emergency of International Concern on Wednesday, with the head of the World Health Organization calling for countries to ‘take notice and redouble our efforts”.