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Congo's army used combat helicopters to bombard rebel fighters on Monday near the city of Goma in the first clashes in nearly six months, days before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to visit the troubled eastern borderlands.

M23 rebels sit in a vehicle as they withdraw from the eastern Congo town of Goma, Dec.

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In an exclusive interview with Chris McGreal in Kigali, Rwanda's president denies backing an accused Congolese war criminal and says challenge to senior US official proves his innocence A new M23 recruit demonstrates his martial arts skills in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last week.

Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues , talked about her memoir, In the Body of the World , in which she recounts her time working on women's rights issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo and her .. Read More Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues , talked about her memoir, In the Body of the World , in which she recounts her time ... (more)

Women's rights advocate and founder of the Run for Congo Women campaign Lisa Shannon called on graduates of the College to exercise empathy as a means of empowerment at commencement Saturday morning.

The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said Saturday.

Move over, mobile phones. There's a new technological fix for poverty: biometric identification.

Reporters Without Borders provided funding for two round-table meetings that local journalists' groups organized for media personnel in the cities of Butembo and Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern province of Nord-Kivu, on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day.

Lawyers representing Jean-Pierre Bemba in his trial at the International Criminal Court have reduced from 63 to 50 the number of witnesses they intended to call to testify for the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A picture of Medard Prosper, a Highland Park senior from the Congo who was killed in an automobile accident in April, was projected on a screen at his school's graduation at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Wednesday, June 6, 2012.

Copper rose for a second day on Friday, supported by tentative signs of better metals demand in top consumer China, but gains were capped by a stronger dollar and persistent worries about Chinese economic growth.

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Some advocates say the situation today could be better than at any time in recent years for a durable peace process.

At least 20 people were killed when a mine collapsed in mineral-rich but conflict-plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following heavy rains, the government said on Friday.

Did Miami-based AeroThrust overcharge the Democratic Republic of Congo by $5 million to overhaul the African nation's presidential jet? Or did officials from the DRC lie on initial paperwork and appropriate public funds for a plane that required more work than originally anticipated? Those questions are central to a lawsuit set for an ... (more)

M23 rebels near Sake, Eastern DR Congo. The rebel group withdrew from Goma on Saturday, Dec.

Violent clashes between rebels and government troops in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have left at least 21 people dead, a military official said Thursday.

One of few remaining miners digs out soil which will later be filtered for traces of cassiterite, the major ore of tin, at Nyabibwe mine, in eastern Congo, Aug.

For biologist Frans de Waal, a peaceful species of great ape in Africa is a mirror of humanity and a living argument that empathy and cooperation are far from unique to mankind.