REBEL forces have entered the last government-held city in mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in an offensive that has…
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THE leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal aimed at ending the long-running…
GUINEA-BISSAU’s former president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has travelled to the Republic of Congo, the AFP and Associated Press news agencies…
A GERMAN woman of Congolese origin was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
A BRIDGE collapsed at a cobalt mine in southeast Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 32 wildcat miners, a…
IN the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it’s back-to-school season. But in Goma, a city of over two million people,…
M23 REBELS killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last month in one of the worst…
THE main rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the M23, has walked away from peace talks with the…
NEARLY 50 prisoners broke out from a jail in the southwest Democratic Republic of Congo in the night from Monday…
AT least 38 people have been killed and 15 others injured in an attack on a church in the eastern…
TWO days after he was kidnapped in July 2007, the bloodied and battered corpse of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi…
PEOPLE in a gold-mining area in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been using their bare hands…
THE Congolese government says it targeted an aircraft which rebels claim was delivering food aid before it was blown up…
THE head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has held talks with Rwanda-backed rebels about…
RWANDA escorted the troops of a Southern African force through Rwandan territory to Tanzania on Tuesday as they pulled out…
THE Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has suspended the political party of former President Joseph Kabila and ordered the…
TORRENTIAL rains and floods have killed at least 33 people in Kinshasa – the capital of the Democratic Republic of…
THE US and the Democratic Republic of Congo are in talks over a minerals deal in the resource-rich central African…
DESPITE growing international pressure, the Democratic Republic of Congo is standing firm on its decision not to have direct talks…
VIOLENCE raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed “more than 7,000 compatriots”, many of them civilians, since last…