The Democratic Republic of Congo national football team have cancelled a planned pre-World Cup training camp at home after the country was hit by an Ebola outbreak, a team official told AFP Wednesday.

A military cargo plane crashes in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, killing its 12 crew members, the defence minister says

The influential Congolese music star Papa Wemba has passed away after collapsing on stage in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, media reports say.

The first soldiers to face justice in a huge sex abuse scandal that has rocked the UN and France went on trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo.