Election Fraud in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. What You Need to Know Mark Leon Goldberg January 17, 2019 The Democratic Republic of Congo held elections on December 30th that would mark the country's first peaceful transfer of power since its independence in 1960. The long serving ruler Joseph Kabilla had effectively delayed these elections for years but after mu...
PODCAST: Why the Latest Ebola Outbreak in the DRC is So Dangerous Mark Leon Goldberg October 18, 2018 An ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sickened over 200 people and resulted in over 130 deaths as of October 18. It could get worse. What makes this current outbreak so potentially dangerous is the fact that it is occurring i...
PODCAST: How Dr. Vanessa Kerry Helps Strengthen Health Systems Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg August 16, 2018 Dr. Vanessa Kerry is the Co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health. This is an international NGO that works in five sub-Saharan countries to bolster the education of medical professionals. This is a vital endeavor, as Dr. Kerry explains, because it goes ...
There is a New Ebola Outbreak — This Time it is in a War Zone. How Worried Should We Be? Alanna Shaikh, MPH August 14, 2018 The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is current facing an Ebola outbreak. There were 52 confirmed and probable cases as of August 11th, and 39 people have died. The problem is not that Ebola is back. We knew it would be back – Ebola has wild animal rese...
Map of the Day: Every Historic Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mark Leon Goldberg May 23, 2018 Today's map comes from the World Health Organization, which released this graphic to help put into context the current ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As you can see from this map, the DRC is no stranger to ebola outbreaks. This ...
14 UN Peacekeepers Have Been Killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Worst Attacks Against the UN in Years Mark Leon Goldberg December 8, 2017 An attack against UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed 14 blue helmets and injured scores more. This was one of the deadliest attack against UN peacekeepers ever. The peacekeepers who were killed were from a Tanzanian contingen...
“If we don’t receive the funds we need immediately, 600,000 people will be on the brink of starvation” Mark Leon Goldberg October 30, 2017 The head of the World Food Program issued a dire warning on Monday: if donors do not step up, hundreds of thousands of people in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will fave starvation. "Right now, we are in crisis-emergency mode," said ...
This could be Africa’s Next Big Crisis Mark Leon Goldberg July 3, 2017 Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher or get the app to listen later. Conflict is escalating in one region of the Democratic Republic of Congo and this conflict has the potential to become one of Africa's next big crises. At issue is a brewing situation in a r...
The Kasai Region of the Congo Could Become Africa’s Next Hotspot Carol Jean Gallo May 30, 2017 Earlier this year, on March 12, two United Nations investigators – American Michael Sharp and Swedish-Chilean Zaida Catalan – went missing in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Just over a month later, a video documenting their murders...
