Congo News

A shipment of forest timber traveled around the southern tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean before it arrived at the Hong Kong dockyards two years ago.

ELAINE Dietsch spends her holidays in hell. Since 2004 the Charles Sturt University senior lecturer in midwifery has visited Africa to help women, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Imagine living with a 50 percent chance of being enslaved or threatened with death by an armed group.

The flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was raised before City Hall on Saturday.This marks the first time the flag has flown in Syracuse.

The United Nations has honoured at least 351 members of the Nepali peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for their security operations and humanitarian work including the commander of the Nepali ...

To the Editor: The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been involved in a chronic conflict, concentrated in the east, where civilian communities are targeted on a daily basis.1 The United Nations Security ...

New Delhi, Aug. 13: The Indian Army is today scrambling to cover its shame on the world stage after an investigation by the UN found evidence of child abuse by troops of a unit deployed for peacekeeping in ...

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sought "disciplinary action to the maximum degree permitted by Indian law" against some Indian peacekeepers who allegedly engaged in "sexual exploitation and ...

Parents depend heavily on school feeding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to provide daily meals for their children.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has suffered enormously from armed conflict within its borders. Millions of lives have been lost. Many others have been forced to flee fighting in different sections of the country. According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), "Nearly one million people are estimated to be displaced in North...

An internal U.N. investigation has found evidence that some Indian peacekeepers may have engaged in "sexual exploitation and abuse" in Congo, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.

More than 80 per cent of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's logging contracts don't meet legal requirements and should be cancelled, according to a government-backed technical group.

Albino people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo face discrimination and marginalization in their communities, according to the United Nations Development Programme , which is sponsoring a workshop to ...

Free anti-malaria medicine will soon become a reality for children younger than five and pregnant mothers after the launch of the first phase of countrywide trials to promote access to the drugs in health ...

Where have all the lowland gorillas gone? The Republic of the Congo, apparently.

A man accused of taking part in the murder of an opposition politician in the Democratic Republic of Congo apologised to the governor of Kinshasa Tuesday for fingering him in the crime.

Pregnant women in a tent at Mindouli hospital, in the Pool, south of Congo: Maternal and infant mortality rates remain high in the Congo BRAZZAVILLE, 5 August 2008 - Maternal and infant mortality rates in the ...

A coalition of more than 60 humanitarian and human rights organizations says widespread violence continues to threaten civilians in Eastern Congo, despite a peace agreement signed six months ago.

A mission from the International Monetary Fund headed by Mr. Brian Ames visited Kinshasa from June 18 to June 29.

UN News Service The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported that dozens of combatants with a Rwandan Hutu rebel group have turned in their arms in the east of the ...

' Just as the need to save the world's forests for climate protection is becoming widely recognised, we have discovered that major logging companies - operating in the Congo basin - are increasingly destroying ...