News | Kasai
| Medics Struggle to Limit DRC Ebola Outbreak | |
VOA News - September 21, 2007 | |
 | A suspected Ebola death has been reported in another province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, raising fears that the virus may be spreading. But the World Health Organization says that with new mobile laboratories in the country and an effective awareness campaign taking place, isolating Ebola cases should now become easier. |
| Ebola outbreak "contained" - Kabila | |
IRIN - September 14, 2007 | |
 | Measures have been taken to prevent the spread of Ebola following the deaths of at least 160 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's southern province of Kasai Occidental during the past two months, President Joseph Kabila said. |
| Ebola virus outbreak in central DR Congo claims 160 lives | |
UN News - September 12, 2007 | |
| At least 160 people have died in an outbreak of the highly lethal haemorrhagic Ebola virus in the centre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, announcing that it is rushing medical and supplies to the region to try to contain the disease. |
| Outbreak in Kasai Occidental confirmed as Ebola | |
IRIN - September 11, 2007 | |
 | Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have identified a fever outbreak that has claimed at least 167 lives in the southern province of Kasai Occidental as Ebola. |
| Suspected haemorrhagic fever claims 100 in Kasai | |
IRIN - August 30, 2007 | |
| An epidemic suspected to be haemorrhagic fever has broken out in the Mweka area, about 100km north-west of Kananga, the administrative centre of Kasai Occidental province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with more than 100 deaths, according to health authorities. |
| UN Mission Sends More Supplies to Crash Victims in DRC | |
VOA News - August 3, 2007 | |
The United Nations Mission In the Democratic Republic of Congo says it will be sending more doctors and medical supplies to central Congo where about 100 people are reportedly feared dead following a train derailment. The crash occurred in Kananga Wednesday in the remote part of the country after seven carriages of the train reportedly derailed. | |
| At Least 100 Dead in DRC Train Accident | |
VOA News - August 2, 2007 | |
 | Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say at least 100 people were killed when a train derailed in the central DRC late Wednesday. |
| Congo Suspends Search for Survivors of Cave-In | |
VOA News - January 7, 2007 | |
 | Recovery efforts have been suspended near the town of Tshikapa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following a cave-in at a pit mine Friday. Local officials in Western Kasai province say at least 13 people digging for diamonds were killed. |
