The virus takes its name from the Ebola River, near the site of one of the first recorded outbreaks in what is now the DRC, in 1976. Four of these six species are known to cause disease in humans and the major African outbreaks have been linked mainly to Zaire, Sudan and Bundibugyo ebolaviruses
When Congo’s President, Felix Tshisekedi, squeezes his corpulent bulk into designer clothing, accessorised with expensive watches that would feed thousands of his immiserated citizens for years and climbs into a flying palace to shuttle around the world to weep crocodile tears and move the powerful to pity his long-suffering people, it is a diversionary dance in step with his Western audience
Trump’s inflammatory remarks about “white genocide” during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state visit were not merely offensive; they invoked white nationalist tropes aimed at delegitimising Black leadership on African soil
Children in schools and homes, some of them for blind and autistic, are dying and injured in fires, and property is destroyed in market places
When I was a child, my younger brother, Bob Kizito, drowned in a pond at the age of just eight
The country should be aware of its limitations and rather address its problems at home
Between Africa and Europe, is it possible to talk of a win-win partnership, of complementarity and common interests?