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The International Criminal Court today called for renewed international efforts to arrest the top leaders of the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army after a series of recent attacks in neighbouring Democratic ...

Gen. Laurent Nkunda's Congrs National pour la Dfense du Peuple have threatened to take their fight to new heights if government forces attack their positions again.

More than two years after the fact, neighbours are still haunted by the screams of the children they couldn't save - the children who struggled at an upstairs window as flames engulfed their Vancouver home and ...

Two weeks ago, the Lord's Resistance Army attacked a number of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and abducted 90 children from their schools.

The United Nations' top official in the Democratic Republic of Congo asked the U.N. Security Council on Friday for extra troops to help halt the spread of violence in the country's eastern provinces.

Thursday, 2 October 2008, 12:01 pm Press Release: United Nations Hundreds of Congolese flee attacks by notorious rebels – UN refugee agency 1 October 2008 – About 1,200 Congolese have sought ...

Friday, 3 October 2008, 10:10 am Press Release: United Nations Rocket-firing UN helicopters attack rebels in eastern DR Congo 2 October 2008 – United Nations attack helicopters firing rockets went into ...

GENETICISTS have pinpointed the origin of the Aids virus to the turn of the 20th century, decades earlier than it was previously believed to have emerged.

Health officials in some hospitals in Congo are putting patients' lives at risk by engaging in unethical practices, local human rights groups have warned.

More than 1,000 refugees from northeastern Congo have fled to neighbouring south Sudan after suspected Lords Resistance Army rebels attacked their camp, the UN refugee agency has said.

The estimated period of origin, considerably earlier than the previous estimate of 1930, coincides with the establishment and rise of urban centers in west-central Africa where the pandemic HIV strain, HIV-1 ...

Child prostitution has reached alarmingly high levels in Congo, a local NGO reported on Wednesday after conducting a state-sponsored, UN funded investigation.

Congo's 83-year-old prime minister says he is resigning for health reasons. Antoine Gizenga said in a statement broadcast on state television Thursday that even if the spirit is still sane and alert, the body ...

Despite new peace agreements, continued conflict among and between armed militias and government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last year has seen thousands of new internally displaced ...

Fighting continues to rage in the North Kivu province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo between Government forces and rebels, the United Nations peacekeeping mission to the country reported today as ...

Hundreds of Congolese civilians, enraged by violent incursions by Lord's Resistance Army Ugandan rebels, attacked United Nations posts in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo yesterday, wounding two UN ...

The International Criminal Court has ruled that there is sufficient evidence to pursue criminal cases against two former Congolese rebel leaders for crimes allegedly committed by their militias in eastern ...

Congolese president Joseph Kabila and Special Representative of the UN for Congo, Alan Doss, have decided not to participate in the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations that is taking place at the UN ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's Prime Minister, Antoine Gizenga, has announced he is resigning because of his age.

Jeff Probst, host of SURVIVOR: GABON - EARTH'S LAST EDEN, is pictured on the new tribal council set for the seventeenth installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series, which premieres Thursday, ... Now ...