Democratic Republic of the Congo News

Kinshasa - Communal violence has claimed at least 100 lives and displaced 53 000 people since the end of October in the Democratic Republic of Congo's north-west Orientale province, the United Nations said on Monday.

The clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, is a world away from the thronging canopy suspended over the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon.

The attack came at first light. The village of Bogoro was turned into a slaughterhouse where "some were shot dead in their sleep, some cut up by machetes to save bullets", the International Criminal Court was told yesterday.

Dozens of people were killed in a remote corner of Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed by Ugandan soldiers, a witness and local media said.

The document, seen by the BBC, says Rwandan-Hutu rebels continue to receive arms supplies and recruit fighters.

Two Congolese militiamen denied charges they ordered subordinates to attack civilians, rape women and enlist child soldiers when they went on trial on Tuesday at the world's first permanent war crimes court.

The bed nets cost about $6 each. When costs for transporting and distributing the nets and educating people how to use them are factored in, it cost just over $411 per infant death prevented.

The International Criminal Court's joint trial of two Congolese rebel leaders offers victims the chance to see accountability for atrocities committed in Congo's armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said today.

Campaigners want ICC to indict Ugandan rebels for crimes they are alleged to have committed in DRC.

After a murderous nine months for local reporters, three female journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo received death threats in September.

Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials.

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Radio Okapi said the plane was flying from Kinshasa to Goma on Thursday and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds.

Rwanda says two rebel leaders arrested in Germany on Tuesday should be sent home to face trial.

Kinshasa's population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day. The Regie de distribution des eaux produces only 425,000 cubic metres - vast neighbourhoods like Kitokimosi and Mpasa receive almost none of this water.

Ignace Murwanashyaka and Straton Musoni suspected of 'carrying out crimes against humanity' in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ignace Murwanashyaka smiles during a news conference in 2005.

The United Nations is quietly preparing an exit strategy for its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, diplomats and officials said.

Democratic Republic of Congo must arrest an indicted war crimes suspect believed to hold a senior command position in U.N.-backed military operations in the east of the country, the U.S. envoy to the region has said.

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A baby bonobo has been born at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, marking the fourth birth of the endangered apes in more than five years.