20120804
AFP
Clashes between local militia and government forces in northern Democratic Republic of Congo sent 2,000 people fleeing into neighbouring Uganda, various sources said Friday.

20120801
AFP
Government forces have abandoned villages to rebel forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after running out of ammunition, diplomats said Tuesday amid mounting concern over the new conflict.

20120729
Press TV
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has called on the UN peacekeeping mission in the war-wracked nation to eliminate rebel groups in the volatile east of the country.

20120728
AFP
The UN refugee agency Friday urged the protection of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where government forces and rebels have clashed for four months.

20120725
AFP
Congolese rangers on Tuesday began searching the dense Virunga jungle for six families of critically endangered mountain gorillas who have not been spotted since fighting erupted three months ago.

20120725
AFP
United Nations helicopters fired on rebel positions Tuesday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after new clashes broke out between rebel fighters and loyalist troops, officials said.

20120718
AFP
Civil plaintiffs in the trial of eight police for the killing of Congolese rights activist Floribert Chebeya claimed Tuesday that a journalist had evidence incriminating the police chief.

20120713
AFP
Mutinous soldiers in DR Congo's eastern Kivu region who had handed their occupied towns back to police and UN peacekeepers gave the army an ultimatum Friday to withdraw from the settlements.

2012-07-11
Xinhua
The governor of North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) affirmed on Tuesday that Rutshuru locality as well as Kiwanja town, 70 km from Goma, were under the control of governmental forces.

20120709
AFP
Rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo seized control Sunday of more towns in the country's east, but said they would cede most of their gains to UN peacekeepers and police.

20120709
AP
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Rebels have seized a town on volatile eastern Congo after the army fled their advance, a local official said Sunday.

20120709
AFP
The International Criminal Court will hand Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga its first-ever sentence on Tuesday, for using child soldiers in a brutal conflict in the central African country.

20120709
AFP
Military uniforms, helmets and boots lie strewn across the floor of the primary school in this border village in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

20120707
AP
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The United Nations said a peacekeeper in Congo was killed by an exploding shell as rebels allegedly backed by Rwanda made major advances in the country's volatile east, taking a border crossing into Uganda and threatening a strategic town.

20120706
AFP
New clashes broke out Thursday in a two-month-old conflict between government troops and rebel soldiers in the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, sources said.

20120703
AFP
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday introduced three new high-denomination banknotes in a bid to ease transactions and counter the growing "dollarisation" of the economy.

20120630
AFP
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila on Friday blamed "dark national and foreign forces" for violent unrest in the eastern part of the country.

20120626
AP
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials say militants have killed at least 10 people and kidnapped a foreigner in a park in volatile northeastern Congo.

20120624
AFP
More than 100 soldiers including two senior officers have quit the army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to join a mutinous armed force known as M23, the mutineers said Saturday.

20120620
AFP
The appeal of eight policemen accused of killing a leading rights activist in 2010 opened at Democratic Republic of Congo's top military court Tuesday.