Fourteen kidnapped aid workers released in eastern Congo

Three people working to remove mines for the UN peacekeepers in DR Congo are kidnapped in an area close to the Rwandan border.

At least 250 prisoners in the Democratic Republic of Congo have escaped in a mass jailbreak in Bukavu, an official tells the BBC.

Silvia Romano, 25, was freed on Saturday in Somalia, in an operation by Italy's secret services.

Muslim preachers from Tanzania kidnapped in DR Congo
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Eight Muslim preachers from Tanzania have been kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an area where several armed groups operate and kidnappings are frequent, authorities said today. The preachers were taken over the weekend from the ...

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DR Congo: Kidnapped imams escape as FDLR abductors clash with Congolese army
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Between six and eight Tanzanian imams previously kidnapped by Rwandan militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo have managed to escape, Congolese officials have said. The religious leaders were abducted between the North Kivu's villages of ...
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Ten US aid workers who were possibly exposed to Ebola are being evacuated back to America from Sierra Leone, US officials say.

US aid workers who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia appear to be improving after receiving an experimental drug, officials says.

The medical charity MSF says 240 of its staff have been forced to flee into the bush in South Sudan to try to escape fighting.

Three aid workers are among 22 people killed in a rebel attack on a clinic in northern Central African Republic, officials say, as Muslims flee the capital.