THE Democratic Republic of Congo has restored capital punishment, particularly for treason and “banditry”, as it deals with increased rebel…
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THE trial of a prominent journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo has resumed in the capital Kinshasa, with the…
THREE ministers and four governors have been disqualified from last month’s election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, because of…
FULL provisional results of elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be announced Sunday, the electoral commission said on…
ON the eve of elections in the vast and impoverished Democratic Republic of Congo, voters of all stripes voiced hopes…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s leader has taken his rhetorical attacks on his Rwandan counterpart to another level by comparing…
THIRTY-SEVEN youths were killed in a stampede overnight during an army recruitment drive in a stadium in Brazzaville, the capital…
AT least 11 civilians have been killed in conflict-torn eastern DR Congo, the army said on Monday, in an attack…
THE Congolese Government has denied reports about a coup attempt against President Denis Nguesso who has been in power for…
A TOP court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has jailed an opposition politician for seven years after finding him…
SIX soldiers have gone on trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo in connection with the killing of more than…
UNICEF on Friday sounded the alarm on child cholera in DR Congo’s troubled North-Kivu province, estimating more than 8,000 under-fives…
AT least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people…
SUSPECTED militants have killed at least 27 people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local reports say…
THE M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are withdrawing from the eastern border town of Bunagana and are expected…
A LARGE crowd gathered around the open sides of the makeshift courtroom in the village of Kamanyola in the eastern…
ANGOLA said on Saturday it will send a military unit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a ceasefire it…
THE authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the number of people killed during the latest protest against UN…
RWANDAN government says “defensive measures were taken” on a Democratic Republic of Congo fighter jet that “violated” its airspace on…
UN peacekeepers in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have found dozens of bodies in mass graves. The…