Democratic Republic of the Congo News

Villagers are fleeing their homes in the DRC. [File Photo] 6 November 2009 &#150 Clashes between two tribes in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo have caused more than 16,000 civilians to flee their homes since last week, crossing into neighbouring Republic of Congo to find safety, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

The medical charity was vaccinating thousands of children against measles on October 17 at seven sites in the rebel-held Masisi district in eastern DR Congo when the national army launched attacks Nov 6, 2009 7:59 PM By Sapa-AFP Doctors Without Borders today said it was "used as bait" by the Democratic Republic of Congo's army in attacks on rebels ...

A UNHCR boat on Oubangui River : Some 16,000 DRC civilians have fled deadly clashes in Equateur Province and are crossing the river to the Republic of Congo KINSHASA, 5 November 2009 - At least 16,000 civilians have fled deadly clashes in western Democratic Republic of Congo and are now languishing, many without food or shelter, in neighbouring ...

The International Criminal Court announced today that the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who has been charged with war crimes, will begin in April 2010.

Over 20,000 Angolans living in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been forced to return to Angola and have been living in tents, with very little food and medical assistance.

A senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army has surrendered to the joint military forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Ugandan army.

The UN refugee agency repatriated 502 Congolese refugees from Zambia on Wednesday, bringing the total number of returnees to the Democratic Republic of Congo to more than 15,000 since May.

Human Rights Watch says that government soldiers have ""deliberately"" killed over 500 civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo since March.

Meetings about extending the UN's carbon-cutting Kyoto Protocol, one of two tracks for a new global climate deal due to be agreed in Copenhagen next month, were all cancelled by the protests at the Nov.

By Joe Bavier Kinshasa - The United Nations is committed to supporting Congo's army and has only withdrawn assistance from certain units it believes killed more than 60 civilians in recent fighting, top UN officials said on Tuesday.

Southern African Development Community chairman Joseph Kabila on Monday said he had discussed with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe the current political impasse threatening to collapse the Harare coalition administration.

Congo is deploying police and soldiers to stamp out a new armed uprising blamed for killing dozens of police in an attack in the country's isolated northern border region last week, a government spokesman said on Monday.

Lack of much needed aircraft that U.N. member states were meant to donate has hampered the ability of a Congo peacekeeping force to protect civilians, the U.N.'s head of peacekeeping said on Sunday.

Villagers from two different communities were involved in a fishing dispute and the police tried to intervene Thursday.

If ever there was a hell on earth, then surely it is the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

The African continent is still being sidelined by international financial institutions, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.

Armed villagers killed at least 47 policemen trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN-sponsored radio has reported.

Today is Friday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2009. There are 62 days left in the year.

Today is Friday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2009. There are 62 days left in the year.

India Thursday said it will offer $263 million line of credit for three projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and also set up an IT excellence centre in the Central African country.