Democratic Republic of the Congo News

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I'm happy to spend just a few minutes with you today and I apologize that I have to run over to the White House quickly after this, but I wanted to be able to focus personally on an important addition to our team here at the State Department; an individual who is going to provide, I believe, a very important focus on a long-troubled region.

Former Senator Russell Feingold has been named the U.S. special envoy to Africa's troubled Great Lakes region.

Research into violence against sex workers will gain added scope, thanks to the support a Concordia alumna has received from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

Located in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo , Virunga is Africa's oldest national park, is one of the continent's first World Heritage Sites and is home to more species than any other place in the continent.

President Obama's upcoming trip to Tanzania may have more to do with Rwanda than meets the eye.

The Nile Cooperative Framework Agreement will give legal backing to the construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam , an expert at the Ministry of Water and Energy said.

The evolving nature and tactics of conflict are creating unprecedented threats for children, United Nations officials told the Security Council today, stressing that despite progress in protecting youngsters during war, dangerous new trends are making them even more vulnerable.

Against the backdrop of a prolonged slump that has brought financial paralysis to much of the Western world, experts have identified Africa as having many of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Authorities in Burundi have been holding a journalist since Thursday on broad allegations of breaching national security, according to news reports.

Children stand on the road outside the village of Tenke, in Congo's copper-producing Katanga province.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels are accusing the government of refusing to negotiate at peace talks in Kampala, Uganda.

A Russian made Antonov cargo suspected to be carrying weapons from Ukraine to restive Democratic Republic of Congo was detained during a stopover for crew rest at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano on Saturday night.

On Thursday, the fifth annual Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards will take place.

Developed world mining and energy companies operating in Africa should pay more taxes to help the world's poorest continent climb out of poverty, the president of the African Development Bank said on Sunday.

Esethu Hasane says he wonders why the DA are focusing on Gauteng if they want to improve the living conditions of the poor.

The occasional horror story seeps out, but the fact that significant numbers of children are abused and die because people believe they are bewitched or possessed by evil spirits is not well-known or documented.

The minister of Environment, Ftima Jardim, stressed Thursday in Luanda that the Mayombe forest will find axes of trans-border co-operation among the members of that initiative .

A local party official for Italy's Northern League caused a national uproar for posting a violent comment on her Facebook page calling for the country's first black minister to be raped.

When the heads of the World Bank and the United Nations flew into the violence-wracked African city of Goma on a cloudy day last month, it was the first time the giants of international development had joined forces in the struggle to help the world's most fragile regions.