Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• The Ebola outbreak this year that you won’t have heard about

  15 Oct 2014: David Heymann: In central Africa this summer, an infection was quickly contained – the strategy that was used can teach us how to stop the current spread

• Inside Gbadolite, President Mobutu’s personal city in the jungle

  15 Oct 2014: The nine years Olela Shungu spent as the dictator’s personal interpreter often took him to Gbadolite, a decadent palace in a remote part of northern DRC dubbed ‘Versailles in the Jungle’

• Forty years on from the Rumble in the Jungle, Kinshasa is a city of chaos

  15 Oct 2014: The heavyweight world championship showdown between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman electrified a city full of pride and promise in the early years following independence – and then the money ran out …
  

• Ebola epidemic 2014: timeline

  15 Oct 2014: From a village in Guinea to a hospital in Madrid: key moments in the spread of the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola
  

• Angolan refugees return home – in pictures

  13 Oct 2014: Nearly 500 former refugees leave Kinshasa in DRC to return to Angola, 12 years after the end of the civil war

• The life and grime of Crystal Palace’s rapping winger Yannick Bolasie

  11 Oct 2014: Born in France, raised in Britain but a Congo international, Yannick Bolasie tells Anna Kessel why he is not your average footballer

• Ebola airport screening in Australia finds and clears six possible cases

  9 Oct 2014: Quarantine officers report all six were cleared and a total of 651 interviews were done from August to October

• Emmanuel de Merode: ‘Gorillas take on all the positive aspects of being human’

  4 Oct 2014: The director of the Virunga National Park, Congo, 44, on being shot by assailants, losing his temper, and the bravery of rangers

• Banks in the DRC: the community that saves together stays together

  Guardian Professional, 1 Oct 2014: Informal banking groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo empower women, fund food and bridge ethnic boundaries, writes Amy Parker

• Democratic Republic of Congo one year on from M23 – in pictures

  24 Sep 2014: One year has passed since the armed group M23 withdrew from Kiwanja town in eastern Congo, ending an 18-month uprising

• Goma peace concert criticised for overshadowing DR Congo’s grim reality

  23 Sep 2014: Event attended by British actor Jude Law provoked controversy for using soldiers from the country’s overstretched armed forces. Jessica Hatcher reports

• Businesses have a role promoting peace in conflict zones

  Guardian Professional, 22 Sep 2014: Coke, Unilever and Lush are promoting peace in conflict zones from the DRC to Palestine, should more follow suit?

• From Cape Town to Kinshasa: could the Great Inga dam power half of Africa?

  Guardian Professional, 19 Sep 2014: Daniel Wesangula: Questions remain on the viability of the project: who stands to benefit most from it and is it sustainable?

• Pope Francis's skull cap attracts €105,000 bid on eBay

  18 Sep 2014: Italian TV show that got pontiff to part with skull cap says money raised will be given to charity fighting child mortality in DRC
  

• Lesbian activist escapes mother who wanted to 'fix' her

  31 Aug 2014: Christina Fonthes returns to Britain from the Democratic Republic of the Congo after passport was stolen by family

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