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UN News Service 4 September 2008 The United Nations has confirmed that the remains of the 17 passengers on board an aid flight that went down in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday have been ...

WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH traveled to sub-Sahara Africa in February he was greeted by large and tumultuous crowds of admirers - which mystified many of his critics, who believe that the animosity toward his ...

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered a key biochemical link in the process by which the Ebola Zaire virus infects cells - a critical step to finding a way to treat the ...

Recovery teams Wednesday had yet to reach the wreckage of an aid-bearing plane that crashed in Democratic Republic of the Congo with 17 people on board.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his deep sadness on Tuesday over the crash of an aid plane in the area of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo .

A security guard at the UN offices in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mr. Doss, who is also head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC - known as MONUC - conducted a joint mission to the area on Sunday, along with the country's Defence Minister, Tshikez Diemu, to assess ...

Given the genocidal record of Belgium's King Leopold II in the Congo towards the end of the 19th century, the choice of Emmanuel de Merode - a descendant of Belgian royalty - as director of Africa's oldest ...

The top United Nations official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has strongly condemned the recent fighting between the Congolese army and rebels in the country's east, stressing that it goes against the ...

Renewed fighting has broken out between government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and rebels loyal to dissident Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda in the northeastern town of Kanombe, threatening a ...

BRAZZAVILLE, 28 August 2008 - A campaign to test for the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension, considered as growing causes of mortality in the Republic of Congo , has been launched in the main cities of ...

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has dispatched patrols to the country's volatile eastern region after some of the worst fighting since a peace deal was signed in ...

The United Nations is assisting foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence which swept South Africa earlier this year to return to their home countries.

Despite government efforts to provide public services to all citizens of the Republic of Congo, indigenous communities continue to be discriminated against, the community's representatives have said.

Former Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba is at the International Criminal Court in the Hague awaiting trial on charges related to violence committed by his troops in the Central African Republic.

Conducted by Greenpeace International, the investigative report, Conning the Congo, says that Danzer Group has been using "an elaborate profit-laundering system" that has also meant moving cash out of the ...

UN News Service 22 August 2008 The United Nations Population Fund is probing the mass expulsion of Congolese nationals from northern Angola, with as many as 85,000 people being forced across the border by ...

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is holding training sessions for the vast African nation's police in a bid to ensure that victims and witnesses of sexual violence ...

Miriam Mannak Cape Town The International Criminal Court is using Africa as a guinea pig, and is too selective when it comes to arresting, indicting and prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against ...

By Jose Adan Silva BILWI, Nicaragua - The newly reactivated U.S. Fourth Fleet began its operations in Latin American waters with a humanitarian mission that made its first stop in Nicaragua, before heading on ...