Democratic Republic of the Congo News

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.

Campaigners want ICC to indict Ugandan rebels for crimes they are alleged to have committed in DRC.

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

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.

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Radio Okapi said the plane was flying from Kinshasa to Goma on Thursday and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds.

Rwanda says two rebel leaders arrested in Germany on Tuesday should be sent home to face trial.

Kinshasa's population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day. The Regie de distribution des eaux produces only 425,000 cubic metres - vast neighbourhoods like Kitokimosi and Mpasa receive almost none of this water.

Ignace Murwanashyaka and Straton Musoni suspected of 'carrying out crimes against humanity' in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ignace Murwanashyaka smiles during a news conference in 2005.

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.

Democratic Republic of Congo must arrest an indicted war crimes suspect believed to hold a senior command position in U.N.-backed military operations in the east of the country, the U.S. envoy to the region has said.

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines Also Included In: Aid / Disasters Article Date: 09 Nov 2009 Last month, seven vaccination sites operated by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres came under fire during attacks by the Congolese army against the Forces Democratiques de Liberation ...

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.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has urged its citizens who recently fled inter-ethnic clashes in the western DRC province of Equateur and sought refuge in the Republic of Congo, to return home, saying calm has been restored in their villages.

In a debate that ended a few hours ago, the United Nations Security Council discussed the pressing, but still elusive issue of protection of civilians in armed conflict.

Human rights and social justice groups throughout the world gather and collect large amounts of data, yet these organizations often lack the resources to document human rights violations systematically and securely.

The United Nations Security Council has expressed "deep concern" about the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo .

"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 ...

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.

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