More than 30,000 refugees from ethnic clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo have crossed the border into the Republic of Congo, aid ...
Plane overshoots runway in eastern Congo, landing in lava surrounding airport; 20 hurt A passenger plane overshot the runway Thursday, landing in hardened ...
The UN Security Council has "strongly condemned" the ongoing attacks and acts of violence of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Great Lakes region of Africa. "The (15) members of the Security Council strongly condemned the continued and recently increasing ...
German police arrested two top Rwandan militia leaders Tuesday suspected of atrocities committed in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, prosecutors said. Ignace Murwanashyaka, 46, the leader of Rwanda's Hutu FLDR rebels, was seized in the western city of Karlsruhe on suspicion of ...
Prosecutors: Rwandan Hutu extremist group leaders arrested in Germany Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo. Experts in the region called the arrests a major blow ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is quietly preparing an exit strategy for its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, diplomats and officials said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, diplomats and U.N. ...
Police fired in the air to break up a demonstration by ex-combatants in restive northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said Wednesday. Demobilised soldiers on Tuesday "besieged a naval colonel to ask for their reintegration papers and their backpay," said Eugenie ...
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have begun vaccinating 2.6 million children under five against polio and measles in three provinces, the health minister said Tuesday. "The campaign concerns Kinshasa, Bas-Congo (both in the west) and Nord-Kivu (in the east) ...
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in the country's isolated north last month, the government said on Sunday. Villagers killed 47 policemen sent ...
Tout Puissant Mazembe of Democratic Republic of Congo bridged a 41-year gap Saturday by regaining the African Champions League title. But it was a close call before a sell-out 35,000 crowd in Lubumbashi with Mazembe defeating Heartland of Nigeria 1-0 to collect ...
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday said it was "used as bait" by the Democratic Republic of Congo's army in attacks on rebels at sites where the aid group was carrying out vaccinations for children. "MSF denounces this clearly unacceptable abuse of ...
Sixty people were killed and more than 16,000 displaced in tribal violence over fishing and farming rights in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN refugee agency said Friday. "In total 60 people have been killed, and the deadly clashes spread to ...
