Democratic Republic of the Congo News Archives

The United Nations today appealed for more than $7.1 billion over the coming year to assist 48 million people across 25 countries whose lives have been wrecked by conflict and natural disasters, with the largest amount - over $1 billion - sought for Sudan.

The International Criminal Court has launched its second trial and the Democratic Republic of Congo is two for two with official charges.

Kinshasa, Congo - A police official says four people died when a jail cell wall fell on them during an attempted prison escape in Congo's capital.

At LEAST 90 people were killed and others went missing after a logging boat sank in a lake in western Democratic Republic of Congo , a Red Cross official said yesterday.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the shooting attack on a United Nations helicopter on Thursday in Dongo in western Democratic Republic of the Congo that left three peacekeepers, a civilian pilot and one member of the Congolese national police wounded.

A British ex-soldier sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for murder must wait longer to find out if his appeal has been successful.

At least 73 people were killed when a boat sank on a lake in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it has emerged.

By Thomas Hubert Kinshasa - A military court in Congo sentenced two Norwegians to death on Tuesday and ordered them and their government to pay over $60-million in damages after the pair were convicted of murder and espionage.

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 clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, is a world away from the thronging canopy suspended over the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon.

The attack came at first light. The village of Bogoro was turned into a slaughterhouse where "some were shot dead in their sleep, some cut up by machetes to save bullets", the International Criminal Court was told yesterday.

Dozens of people were killed in a remote corner of Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed by Ugandan soldiers, a witness and local media said.

The document, seen by the BBC, says Rwandan-Hutu rebels continue to receive arms supplies and recruit fighters.

Two Congolese militiamen denied charges they ordered subordinates to attack civilians, rape women and enlist child soldiers when they went on trial on Tuesday at the world's first permanent war crimes court.

The bed nets cost about $6 each. When costs for transporting and distributing the nets and educating people how to use them are factored in, it cost just over $411 per infant death prevented.

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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Security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in the country's isolated north last month, the government said on Sunday.

Moving Image Archive > NASA Images > Fires in Kasai Region, Democratic Republic of the Congo NASA Fires in Kasai Region, Democratic Republic of the Congo Widespread agricultural burning is common in the dry season in Africa.

Villagers are fleeing their homes in the DRC. [File Photo] 6 November 2009 &#150 Clashes between two tribes in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo have caused more than 16,000 civilians to flee their homes since last week, crossing into neighbouring Republic of Congo to find safety, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

The medical charity was vaccinating thousands of children against measles on October 17 at seven sites in the rebel-held Masisi district in eastern DR Congo when the national army launched attacks Nov 6, 2009 7:59 PM By Sapa-AFP Doctors Without Borders today said it was "used as bait" by the Democratic Republic of Congo's army in attacks on rebels ...

A UNHCR boat on Oubangui River : Some 16,000 DRC civilians have fled deadly clashes in Equateur Province and are crossing the river to the Republic of Congo KINSHASA, 5 November 2009 - At least 16,000 civilians have fled deadly clashes in western Democratic Republic of Congo and are now languishing, many without food or shelter, in neighbouring ...

The International Criminal Court announced today that the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who has been charged with war crimes, will begin in April 2010.

Over 20,000 Angolans living in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been forced to return to Angola and have been living in tents, with very little food and medical assistance.

A senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army has surrendered to the joint military forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Ugandan army.

The UN refugee agency repatriated 502 Congolese refugees from Zambia on Wednesday, bringing the total number of returnees to the Democratic Republic of Congo to more than 15,000 since May.

Human Rights Watch says that government soldiers have ""deliberately"" killed over 500 civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo since March.

Meetings about extending the UN's carbon-cutting Kyoto Protocol, one of two tracks for a new global climate deal due to be agreed in Copenhagen next month, were all cancelled by the protests at the Nov.

By Joe Bavier Kinshasa - The United Nations is committed to supporting Congo's army and has only withdrawn assistance from certain units it believes killed more than 60 civilians in recent fighting, top UN officials said on Tuesday.

Southern African Development Community chairman Joseph Kabila on Monday said he had discussed with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe the current political impasse threatening to collapse the Harare coalition administration.

Congo is deploying police and soldiers to stamp out a new armed uprising blamed for killing dozens of police in an attack in the country's isolated northern border region last week, a government spokesman said on Monday.

Lack of much needed aircraft that U.N. member states were meant to donate has hampered the ability of a Congo peacekeeping force to protect civilians, the U.N.'s head of peacekeeping said on Sunday.

Villagers from two different communities were involved in a fishing dispute and the police tried to intervene Thursday.