Democratic Republic of the Congo News

Sporting only the most stylish designer labels, wearing only meticulously matched colors, the Congo's dandies are the very embodiment of sartorial elegance.

In 1993 when civil war broke out in Burundi Pierre Gasaimbo fled to a refugee camp in Tanzania.

OBO, Central African Republic - On the edge of this quiet town in the isolated forests of central Africa sits one of America's newest military outposts, a base made of grass surrounded by razor wire.

The death of Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's senior business adviser may trigger a power struggle in one of Africa's biggest mineral- producing countries, said analysts including Thomas Wilson at London-based consulting firm africapractice.

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 10, 2012 .- Benedict XVI has chosen the Congolese cardinal-archbishop of Kinshasa to preach his Lenten spiritual exercises in the Vatican this year.

BOTH THE US and the UN have spoken out recently on the Democratic Republic of Congo's status in the aftermath of November election results widely viewed as fraudulent.

Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's chief adviser was killed in a plane crash near the eastern town of Bukavu on Sunday, an Interior Ministry official said.

Reuters 02/10/2012 By Sanjeev Miglani [Printer Friendly Version] For many in the West, Afghanistan and Iraq have much in common.

As African leaders now calling for a continental free trade area by 2017 to boost trade within the continent, a new World Bank report shows how African countries, including Ghana, are losing out on billions of dollars in potential trade earnings every year, because of high trade barriers with neighboring countries.

Minmetals Resources said on Friday its acquisition of Anvil Mining will proceed now that the two firms have reached an agreement with minority stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The first means wholesale or mass destruction of any kind. The second, "Holocaust" - with a capital H - describes the one that occurred between 1933 and 1945 by the Nazis.

FLINT, Michigan-- On February 19 the Flint Youth Theatre will be performing a staged reading of "Ruined," a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Lynn Nottage set in the civil war of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a less than glowing image in the DRC, but there is no sign in sight of the mission's end.

Lonrho Hotels, a division of London-listed property group Lonrho Plc, has entered into a 10-year management agreement for the 450-room Grand Hotel in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

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Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to preach the annual Lenten Retreat for the Roman Curia.

Democratic Republic of Congo's gold output is set to surge as record prices and the end of Africa's biggest war prompted production to restart in some of the continent's most remote regions after more than 50 years.

Incongruous is just one word that comes to mind when attempting to describe eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Clutching onto its mother, these intimate images of a near-bald baby bonobo proves there is such a thing as too much love.

The intensifying competition for commercial access to the world's remaining deposits of oil, gas and minerals brings with it a serious risk of exacerbating corruption and violent conflict.