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Kinshasa - Communal violence has claimed at least 100 lives and displaced 53 000 people since the end of October in the Democratic Republic of Congo's north-west Orientale province, the United Nations said on Monday.

The International Criminal Court's joint trial of two Congolese rebel leaders offers victims the chance to see accountability for atrocities committed in Congo's armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said today.

Many homeless children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are living on the streets after being accused of witchcraft.

Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service, will be in the Bay Area next week at three advanced screenings of "Reporter," the new documentary featuring Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, as he uncovers the stories of women and children affected by the decade-long conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials.

Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [File Photo] 19 November 2009 &#150 The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo today welcomed the arrest of two leaders of a rebel Rwandan militia on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity and war crimes in the eastern region of the DRC.

Conflict Minerals Trade Act key first step to ensuring armed groups don't benefit from Americans' high-tech purchases, says aid group Eastern DRC has one of world's highest rates of gender-based violence, child soldier use Legislation would help companies certify products as "conflict free," World Vision says Washington, DC, November 19, 2009-Aid ...

Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.

Why do gorillas in the Congo hate cell phones? The clue to the puzzle is found in the mineral called coltan, produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

After a murderous nine months for local reporters, three female journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo received death threats in September.

Democratic Republic Congo is still plagued by insecurity six years after a war that drew in neighbours and cost millions of lives.

The United Nations is quietly preparing an exit strategy for its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, diplomats and officials said.

The top priority for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the protection of civilians from abuse, be it from the Government forces that it is mandated to support or armed rebel groups, a senior official said today.

A baby bonobo has been born at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, marking the fourth birth of the endangered apes in more than five years.

Eight years after the end of Congo's civil wars, the outgoing U.N. humanitarian chief in the country said Thursday he hopes the slow progress toward peace can be sustained.

A group of Impfondo residents in nothern Republic of Congo : Thousands of DRC citizens who have fled violence and settled in Impfondo and Betou districts are reluctant to return home KINSHASA, 12 November 2009 - The Democratic Republic of Congo has urged its citizens who recently fled inter-ethnic clashes in the western DRC province of Equateur and ...

"When will the Democratic Republic of the Congo finally begin to benefit from its oil resources?" asks the Congolese newspaper "Le Potential" in an article in which it stressed that all States in the Great Lakes Region, except the DRC, have taken concrete steps in the exploitation of gas and oil which, according to recent estimates, are found in ...

Riddle me this. What do you get when you combine rainforest destruction, tar sands, and palm oil plantations in one project? You guessed it, an environmental nightmare.

Eni claimed the crude would be produced in areas of grassy savannah, and would not damage the forests.

While the crisis that plagued eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo last year and threatened to engulf the entire region has eased, some of the factors that led to the fierce fighting and the displacement of hundred of thousands must still be dealt with, a senior United Nations envoy said today.