Nearby a Médecins Sans Frontières triage centre is the only reminder that this slum area is the epicentre of the mpox epidemic in Kinshasa. There are no posters, no pamphlets or banners warning ...

WALKING through the crowded streets of the Pakadjuma neighbourhood in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, I am struck by the vibrant atmosphere around me. Children play happily in ...

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Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos.Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals ...

Walking through the crowded streets of the Pakadjuma neighbourhood in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, I am struck by the vibra. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Kinshasa, often called “Kin la Belle”, faces a unique crisis in the fight against mpox. Both strains of the virus, clade Ia and clade Ib, are circulating in the city simultaneously. This is ...

Congo-Kinshasa: Mpox in the DRC - Residents of the Slum At the Centre of Kinshasa's Epidemic Have Little Chance of Avoiding This Major Health Crisis. 24 January 2025.