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Civilians in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo live in constant fear and face a critical humanitarian situation as rebels keep up attacks, the humanitarian aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said Wednesday.

Kinshasa: Armed villagers killed at least 47 policemen trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in northern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The African continent is still being sidelined by international financial institutions, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.

If ever there was a hell on earth, then surely it is the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

The SADC Troika on Defence, Security and Politics began its fact finding mission in Harare on Thursday in an effort to narrow the differences between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe.

India Thursday said it will offer $263 million line of credit for three projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and also set up an IT excellence centre in the Central African country.

A French appeals court has halted a lawsuit against three African leaders accused of embezzlement.

Published: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 12:36 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 3:45 a.m. LAKELAND Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a hot spot during the Cold War.

Concerns abound about a nine billion dollar Chinese investment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially around environmental consequences and transparency.

Nelson Mandela's daughters have condemned the alleged misuse of his name by Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso as "fraud, nothing more and nothing less". And they have found support for their stance from the same ambassador who last week reportedly slammed the Nelson Mandela Foundation's complaint against Sassou-Nguesso as causing ...

Congo musician Fredy Massamba promises that he and his band are going to treat you to the "best African music ever" tonight Fredy Massamba may sing in Kikongo or Lingala.

The three principals to the Global Political Agreement met in Harare on Monday for a first crisis summit, since the MDC disengaged from ZANU PF ten days ago.

Former Tutsi rebels integrated into the Congolese army have warned of a possible return to conflict.

Back in May, YouTube asked their readers to make videos demonstrating the connection between the "conflict minerals" used in cell phones and the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

IDPs in North Kivu A sharp rise in attacks on humanitarian workers in the eastern North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has impeded efforts to provide life-saving assistance to hundreds of thousands of people in need.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has threatened legal action against the president of Congo-Brazzaville after discovering he claimed the foreword of his new book had been penned by the anti-apartheid leader.

Recent reports highlight the failure of efforts to reform Congo's state and the continuing pillage of its mining industry by local and foreign interests.

More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and rape and violence against women are so common that it's been called femicide-genocide against women.

By Karyn Maughan and Sibusiso Ngalwa Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is insisting on the retraction of a Nelson Mandela Foundation statement condemning his alleged "brazen abuse" of Mandela's name.

United Nations humanitarian officials today voiced concerns for the health and living conditions of tens of thousands of Angolan refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the two countries engage in retaliatory expulsions of each other's citizens.

A recent upsurge in fighting between the Lord's Resistance Army and soldiers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has displaced 40,000 people, adding to the nearly half a million persons already uprooted by the conflict.

Tens of thousands of Angolans recently expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in various sites around the town of Mbanza Congo in northern Angola.

Nelson Mandela's foundation is denying that he wrote a foreword to an African leader's book.

Norwegians Tjostolv Moland and Joshua French attend a military tribunal in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ali Bongo Ondimba, the victor in the Aug. 30 presidential elections, took oath of office on Friday at the Presidential Palace in Libreville and succeeded his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who died on June 8 at the age of 73, after ruling the West African country for 41 years.

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing their homes as the conflict between the Lorda s Resistance Army and Congolese forces expands in the northeastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Gunmen have stepped up banditry and rapes in Congo Republic's Pool region, witnesses and officials said on Thursday, in a wave of insecurity that has broken a period of relative calm after a decade of instability.

For the second time this week, the United Nations refugee agency today warned more than 2,000 Congolese in Burundi not to return to the strife-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , which they fled during ethnic fighting in 2004.

A growing network of activists is flexing its market muscle to help end the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the deadliest and most neglected war in the world.

Internally displaced children in Tadu, north-eastern DRC 8 October 2009 &#150 The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has launched a child protection campaign in a war-ravaged eastern province of the African nation.

Authorities in the Republic of Congo have restricted the movements of several opposition politicians, who claim President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's July re-election was won through fraud.

The woman and her nine kids were living in the streets. Her husband had been stopped by rebel forces, and was shot and killed in front of them.

Alarmed by the sharp spike in sexual violence against women, the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged governments and the United Nations itself to crack down on the soldiers and civilians who rape and torture with impunity.

More than 2,000 people around the world are dying from armed violence each day, on average, advocacy groups said Tuesday, urging nations to launch negotiations on a treaty to regulate the arms trade.

The United Nations refugee agency today warned more than 2,000 Congolese sheltering in Burundi against returning to their homes in conflict-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo .

A 19-year-old Vancouver man has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with the arson attack on an east Vancouver townhouse that killed four members of one family and a family friend a year ago.

A former Rwandan minister is accused of diverting funds from international donors to murderous militias during the 1994 genocide that killed more than 500,000 people, a prosecutor at a U.N.-backed court said Wednesday.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton takes her campaign against sexual violence in conflict to the United Nations Wednesday, just as political strife in Guinea provides a fresh example of the kind of grisly actions she wants the world organization to stop.

Secretary Clinton, who has committed to making women's issues a "centerpiece" of her work as the Obama administration's chief diplomat, will chair a session of the UN Security Council on women, peace, and security. At the session Wednesday, she'll promote a US-sponsored resolution that seeks to expand and strengthen a measure approved last year, which condemns the use of rape in conflict and characterizes it as a threat to peace and security.