20101015
africanews

Troubled Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has caught the eye of Cameroon football legend Roger Milla in its bid to host the 2015 or 2017 Africa Cup of Nations tournament. "It has been a long time since the Africa Cup of Nations was hosted in the Central African region," Milla said in a footafrica365report.

20101011
reuters

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - French authorities have arrested a Rwandan accused of leading a rebel group that carried out mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Monday.

20101011
africanews

Some one billion people across Africa and Asia went hungry this year, according to the Global Hunger Index annual report released on Monday. The report covered 122 countries across the world and many of the hungry are children in Africa and Asia with 25 having "alarming" levels of hunger.

20100924
africanews

A presidential hopeful of the Democratic Republic of Congo Dr Francis Bent Mboyo Ndombo has said the recent UN report uncovering mass human rights abuses in the country including the possible geno

20100917
aljazeera

Central African nation criticised for not acting swiftly against militiamen behind recent orgy of rapes.

20100913
reuters

DAKAR (Reuters) - Congo will struggle to enforce its new ban on mining in rebellious eastern areas and the move is likely to increase smuggling rather than help clean up an industry accused of fuelling conflict, analysts say.

20100910
RFI

President Joseph Kabila has decided to suspend mining in three provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a minister in one of the provinces said Friday.

20100907
africanews

The report documenting the most serious human rights violations committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003 will be made public on 1 October, the United Nations announced today.

20100906
reuters

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Dozens are feared to have died when two boats capsized in two separate incidents in recent days in Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities in the central African country said on Monday.

20100906
africanews

Hundreds fear dead in DRC boat incidence Many people are feared dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo after two boats capsized in separate incidents. One of the boats was carrying up to 300 people when it caught fire on the Kasai River near the border with Angola. Officials are investigating why the boat was sailing at night without lights.

20100906
africanews

A presidential hopeful of the Democratic Republic of Congo Dr. Francis Mboyo Ndombo Bent is calling on well meaning people of the beleaguered country to support his quest to campaign for the presidency. He told AfricaNews the time has come for change and donations are welcomed to champion his cause.

20100903
reuters

More than two dozen children were among the hundreds of civilians recently raped by members of armed groups active in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations reported on Friday.

20100828
reuters

United Nations — As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s failure to prevent the raid from occurring.

20100824
africanews

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a top official to Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a mass rape of women by rebels in the east that U.N. peacekeepers say they only heard about over a week later.

20100823
UN News

A United Nations human rights team has confirmed that members of two armed groups in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) raped more than 150 women during an attack on a village in North Kivu province last month, a UN spokesperson said on Monday.

20100823
reuters

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo gang-raped almost 200 women during a four-day seizure of a town, aid groups said.

20100820
africanews

Soldiers have arrested at least two suspects in the killings of three Indian United Nations peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a military spokesperson said. It is reported that, the arrests came the morning after the three Indian peacekeepers died during a raid of the UN base in Kirumba.

20100803
reuters

KINSHASA (Reuters) - An Indian pilot who was taken hostage by rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been released unharmed after being forced to walk through the bush for five days, the Indian embassy said on Tuesday.

20100801
allAfrica

Fifty years ago, the former Belgian Congo received its independence under the democratically elected government of former prime minister Patrice Lumumba. Less than seven months later, Lumumba and two colleagues were, in the contemporary idiom, "rendered" to their Belgian-backed secessionist enemies, who tortured them before putting them before a firing squad. The Congo would not hold another democratic election for 46 years. In 2002, following an extensive parliamentary inquiry, the Belgian government assumed a portion of responsibility for Lumumba's murder.

20100730
allafrica

ocal authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are reporting that almost 90,000 people have been uprooted from their homes following recent military operations in the region, the United Nations humanitarian arm said today.