Congo News

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 14 October 2008 - The locality of Binza Meteo is one of the poorest in Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo.

Voicing "increasing concern" at developments in the border areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on rebels and the Congolese Government to ...

The Eleventh General Congregation of the Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops was held this afternoon.

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 12, 2008 .- Benedict XVI is pleading for an end to violence in India, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The African Union will become more involved in finding a durable peace in the conflict-torn Democratic Republic of Congo , its chief, Jean Ping, said on Sunday as he wrapped up a three-day visit here.

"I have come to meet with Congolese authorities to understand the situation on the ground before putting forward solutions," Ping told reporters on his arrival in the country on Friday.

Serious fighting has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and in the neighbouring district of Ituri, with thousands of civilians displaced, and others cut off, amid claims that ...

The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has not been able to confirm persistent reports of incursions by Rwandan troops into the eastern part of the vast country where they are said ...

Congo's President Joseph Kabila named a new prime minister following the resignation of 83-year-old Antoine Gizenga.

Democratic Republic of Congo accused its neighbour Rwanda on Thursday of sending troops into its territory in support of Congolese Tutsi rebels and requested an emergency meeting of the U.N Security Council.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has assured the United Nations of its commitment to abide by the ceasefire in the eastern part of the vast African country, which has recently been the scene ...

Led by University of Arizona assistant professor Michael Worobey, the researchers discovered the world's second-oldest genetic sequence of a strain of HIV known as HIV-1 group M. The sequence was recovered from ...

Congo has accused neighbouring Rwanda of sending troops across the border and fighting in support of a Congolese warlord amid fierce skirmishes that escalated Wednesday and wounded dozens of people.

A recent uprising of rebel activity in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused Bishop Henri Isingoma and 150 delegates of the Province de L'Eglise Anglicane du Congo to be stranded in Boga ...

The United States condemns and rejects the statements made by General Nkunda, leader of the National Congress for the Defense of the People , claiming the CNDP intends to overthrow the elected and universally ...

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.