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congo kin    Congo - Kinshasa   

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DROC, the DRC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, and formerly Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. It is, by area, the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa, and the 11th-largest in the world. Wikipedia

Capital: Kinshasa

Dialing code: +243

President: Felix Tshisekedi

Population: 86.79 million (2019) World Bank

Currency: Congolese franc

Official language: French

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Mpox cases in DRC are on the rise and continue to spread geographically. They have now been reported in 17 of the country’s 24 provinces. The main caseloads are found in Equateur, Mai Ndombe, Tshopo, Sankuru, and Maniema Provinces.

The Tunda health zone of Maniema notifies increasing numbers of Mpox cases, deaths and areas affected. Maniema is one of the provinces most affected by the humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC and severely lacks operational presence to support populations, especially in the health sector during epidemics.

DG ECHO has committed an additional EUR 350 000 through its Epidemics Tool to support the activities of its partner Alima for Mpox outbreak response in the Tunda Health Zone and expand them to Kailo, Kibombo and Kindu. The funding will be used to reinforce capacity building and community resilience through surveillance, case-detection and -management and infection prevention through community engagement. Preparedness and response will also benefit from the epidemiologic and operational lessons-learnt documented as part of this ongoing action in Maniema.

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