Congo, with about 30,000 suspected mpox cases and 859 deaths, accounts for more than 80 per cent of all the cases and 99 per cent of all the deaths reported in Africa this year.

(Bloomberg) -- A flu-like illness that’s afflicted almost a thousand people in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as a new strain of mpox are circulating in the central African country ...

GOMA, Congo — Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be ''stabilizing'' — a possible sign that the main epidemic for which the World Health Organization made a global ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief announced on Wednesday that the UN agency has partially resumed mpox vaccinations in Goma, an eastern city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

The alarm has been raised over the mutation of a new strain of mpox. The variant is said to be "highly transmissible" and is currently rampaging through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).