KINSHASA (Reuters) - A United Nations plane crashed while attempting to land at the airport serving Congo's capital Kinshasa on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 16, a UN source told Reuters.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recalled its ambassador to neighbouring Republic of Congo over what it said was Brazzaville's suspected involvement in a thwarted attack.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Six people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday in what authorities said was a failed coup attempt on the presidential palace in the capital Kinshasa.
20110217 Xinhua KINSHASA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Up to 98,678 Rwandese refugees have been repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) to Rwanda since Aug. 1, 2007, authorities reported on Wednesday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Eleven members of a family kidnapped by suspected Ugandan Islamic rebels in eastern Congo were found dead two weeks after they disappeared, a local official and a civil society organisation said on Monday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Authorities in Congo have arrested four foreigners suspected of planning to smuggle millions of dollars of gold out of the country's lawless east, a senior local official said on Monday.
KINSHASA, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Unidentified gunmen attacked an airport in the southeastern province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) on Friday, killing one person and destroyed property, according to official sources.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's first rehabilitation centre for victims of sexual violence opened its doors on Friday, weeks after a new spate of mass rapes in its troubled east.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Rwandan rebel group leader accused of mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the court said on Tuesday.
20110125 Reuters AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Rwandan rebel group leader accused of mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the court said on Tuesday.
Bunia — Almost two years into the trial of Thomas Lubanga for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), several international justice experts and observers say the court has had a largely positive impact on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but some differ.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament approved controversial voting reforms on Saturday expected to boost incumbent President Joseph Kabila's chances of re-election in November.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today hailed a new law granting children in the Republic of Congo belonging to indigenous populations a legal basis to access health, education and protection.
Nairobi — Thousands of people who fled a 24 November rebel attack in the northeastern Central African Republic (CAR) town of Birao, Vakaga Province, urgently need humanitarian assistance, says a UN official.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) today began the trial of former Congolese leader Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, who stands accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) between 2002 and 2003.
Trial opened Friday in Kinshasa for eight police officers accused of the murder of leading Congolese human rights activist Floribert Chebeya last June. Chebeya, who headed the prominent human rights organisation La Voix des Sans Voix (VSV - The Voice of the Voiceless), disappeared on June 1 after going to police headquarters in Kinshasa.
LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - More than 40 people were killed in Congo when a truck overturned in a town near the country's southern border with Angola, U.N.-backed Radio Okapi reported on Tuesday.
At least eight assailants have been killed after the rebels carried out a rare attack on a UN peacekeepers' base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the weekend, said an emailed statement from the UN mission Monusco.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Around 50 rebels carried out a rare attack on a U.N. peacekeepers' base in eastern Congo at the weekend and eight assailants were killed when peacekeepers fired back, the U.N. mission said on Monday.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo aims to boost its presence in the vast nation's turbulent east, but it can never protect everyone there without more troops and resources, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.
