MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.

An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to doctors in the country and global health authorities. The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases,

At least 50 people have died from an unknown disease in northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC. Local authorities reported on Monday that over 943 cases of fever of unknown origin have been identified in Basankusu in the DRC’s Equateur Province since February 9,