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For several years, the Republic of the Congo has been quietly buying an arsenal from Azerbaijan, with the latest cache arriving before next month’s election

Congo's army has widened a safety zone around the site of the weekend arms dump explosions that killed nearly 200 people.

Fears of more unexploded munitions at a Congo arms depot where a series of blasts killed nearly 200 people have delayed the search for more wounded.

The number of victims from the Congo armoury blast continues to rise as morgues run out of space and are forced to stack bodies two each onto a tray.

At least four mortar shells pounded a northern working-class district of the Congo capital Brazzaville overnight, causing heavy damage.

Sitting at a small clinic in the Talangai area, north of Congo's capital, Brazzaville, Elise Diamba holds the hands of her malnourished two-year old grandson. "Gérard's mother stopped breastfeeding him when he was seven months," the 61-year old grandmother says. "He hadn't even started walking. Since then, his health has not been good."