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Residents leave Goma, Congo, by boat on Lake Kivu Thursday, May 27, 2021, five days after Mount Nyiragongo erupted. Evacuation orders were given for most of the town, fearing further eruptions and tremors. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Thousands evacuate Congo's Goma amid renewed volcano threat

By Justin Kabumba Katumwa And Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro May. 27, 2021 01:04 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 22, 1960 file photo, an unidentified Congolese citizen removes a portrait of Belgium's King Baudouin, at the N'Djili Airport in Leopoldville, the capital before it was later renamed in 1966 to Kinshasa, in Congo. On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Congo is marking the 60th anniversary of achieving independence from the colonial rule of Belgium. (AP Photo, File)
Congo marks 60th anniversary of independence from Belgium

By Jean-Yves Kamale Jun. 30, 2020 09:37 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 28 2014 file photo shot by AP contributing photographer John Bompengo, children stand next to the goods they sell in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Relatives say longtime Associated Press contributor John Bompengo has died of COVID-19 in Congo's capital. Bompengo, who had covered his country's political turmoil over the course of 16 years, died Saturday, June 20, 2020 at a Kinshasa hospital. (AP Photo/John Bompengo, file)
Veteran AP video, photo-journalist in Congo dies of COVID-19

By Krista Larson Jun. 21, 2020 12:31 PM EDT

In this photo taken Friday, April 10, 2020, Martine Milonde, a Congolese community mobilizer who works with the aid group World Vision in Beni, eastern Congo, which became the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, engages the public about coronavirus prevention. Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of people for more than 18 months, and now it must also face a new scourge: the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)
Congo, weary from Ebola, must also battle the coronavirus

By Carley Petesch And Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro Apr. 11, 2020 03:09 AM EDT