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A former Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prosecuted and briefly detained in 2021 for an alleged embezzlement of funds allocated to the fight against Covid-19 was acquitted on Wednesday by Congolese justice, announced his lawyer.
(Bloomberg Businessweek) When Covid-19 convulsed the world last year, the International Monetary Fund disbursed $118 billion in emergency loans to 87 countries to help them through the crisis.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the northwestern part of the country. It is the eighth outbreak since 2007, but this time the country seems prepared to handle it.