Democratic Republic of the Congo News Archives

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.

India Gazette Wednesday 28th October, 2009 India and Congo will discuss ways to improve economic ties when the foreign ministers of the two countries meet Thursday.

In this Oct. 30, 1974, file photo, perspiration flies from the head of defending champion George Foreman as he takes a right from challenger Muhammad Ali in the seventh round in their world heavyweight championship bout dubbed "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire.

Concerns abound about a nine billion dollar Chinese investment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially around environmental consequences and transparency.

Military contingents from five East African countries have begun field training in disaster and emergency response as well as anti-terrorism in the northern Ugandan district of Kitgum.

Over 42,000 Angolans have been sent back to their homeland from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Last summer, news in the United States that Jaycee Dugard had been kept in captivity in Antioch, Calif., for 18 years and raped by her captor until her Aug.

The United Nations on Tuesday launched a cry of alarm over the "madness" behind a growing wave of rapes committed by the warring parties in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The United Nations human rights chief today welcomed a new treaty to protect and assist those uprooted from their homes due to conflict and natural disasters in Africa, which accounts for nearly half of the world's 26 million internally displaced persons .

Looking at herself in the mirror, nine-year-old Helena squealed with delight at her reflection, standing upright with just the slightest support of her therapist.

More than 30,000 Angolans are stranded in transit camps after being abruptly deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo and there are growing fears of a cholera outbreak as the rainy season begins.

SA construction group Murray & Roberts says rand strength will hit foreign earnings, while performance issues in its home market and at a unit in Southern Africa may limit operating results.

The Synod Fathers have sent a Letter to the Presidents of the Bishops' Conferences of Sudan, Uganda, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic, signed by the three President Delegates and the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, expressing their solidarity with the dioceses located in the Great Lakes Region, for ...

A burgeoning humanitarian crisis among the tens of thousands of people expelled by the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring Angola is beginning to unfold.

The Forest Investment Program will meet for the first time on October 29 in Washington to kickstart the program and discuss the criteria for selecting countries or regions of the world that could benefit most from the effort.

The 13th World Forestry Congress is being held in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires.

Tens of thousands of Angolans recently expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in various sites around the town of Mbanza Congo in northern Angola.

The diamond industry's Kimberley Process is failing due to a lack of accountability and follow-up, paving the way for an illegal trade that could see a return of conflict stones to world markets, campaigners said.

Night-time attacks on civilians and rape by armed men remain widespread in a strife-torn region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where nearly 5,400 cases of rape were reported in the first six months of the year, United Nations officials said today.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo allegedly killed 50 Rwandan , Hutu refugees and kidnapped some 40 women who were victims of gang rape, according to a United Nations special report on extrajudicial executions.

Ali Bongo Ondimba, the victor in the Aug. 30 presidential elections, took oath of office on Friday at the Presidential Palace in Libreville and succeeded his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who died on June 8 at the age of 73, after ruling the West African country for 41 years.

The tit-for-tat expulsion of thousands of Angolan refugees living in the Democratic Republic of Congo , and the repatriation of thousands of undocumented Congolese migrants working in Angola, is raising fears of a "humanitarian catastrophe" in the making.

KINSHASA Congolese soldiers killed 50 Rwandan Hutu refugees and abducted and raped around 40 women during an attack on a refugee camp in eastern DR Congo last April, a UN special rapporteur said Thursday.

Rene Ngongo, honored with the "alternative Nobel" this week, grew up in a Congo where he could marvel at the wealth of animals and trees.

Tens of thousands of people - some of them wrenched from their homes with only the clothes on their backs - have been expelled recently from both Angola and Congo in what has been a tit-for-tat immigration dispute between two of Africa's behemoth neighbors.

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing their homes as the conflict between the Lorda s Resistance Army and Congolese forces expands in the northeastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kinshasa, Oct 14 Authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola are looking for a way out to the bilateral migratory conflict, after Angolans have been massively expelled from the other country.

Humanitarian organizations have been unable to meet the "massive needs" of civilians facing brutal attacks in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a medical aid group said Wednesday.

View FullText article DOI Abstract Rape has been used as a weapon in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in unprecedented ways.

The call to action by the Congo Advocacy Coalition said 1,000 civilians have been killed, 7,000 women and girls have been raped, and nearly 900,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since January.

The Democratic Republic of Congo said it had agreed with Angola to halt tit-for-tat expulsions of each other's citizens as victims here on Wednesday told of being subjected to brutal rapes and lootings when they were thrown out by Luanda.

Frederick Sinjela, a fisherman in Mpulungu district in Northern Province, Zambia, cannot imagine how his actions could affect something as big as Lake Tanganyika, but his harmful practices, multiplied by thousands like him, are a real and growing threat.

Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to stop deporting each other's citizens after a spate of expulsions left thousands homeless.

Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki has won an honorary "Alternative Nobel" for his work to raise awareness about climate change.

Actress Sigourney Weaver said Saturday that orphaned gorillas desperately need a permanent rescue and rehabilitation center that's currently being built in the Congo.

In the past decade, the European Union has brought security in its missions across the globe.

Two Norwegian security consultants sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo a month ago had secured a contract to train an elite Kenyan security squad.

Congolese Tutsi refugees Saturday agreed to moved to a temporary camp in eastern Burundi after Kinshasa delayed their entry into their homeland saying it needed more time and preparation to settle them.

In an effort to help displaced children living in camps in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo cope with the trauma of seemingly endless conflict, clowns have come to the rescue.

Internally displaced children in Tadu, north-eastern DRC 8 October 2009 &#150 The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has launched a child protection campaign in a war-ravaged eastern province of the African nation.

After winning the Prince's Rainforests Project Award category in this year's Sony World Photography Awards, Spaniard Daniel BeltrA toured the Amazon, Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo to document the devastation being wrought by deforestation, writes Will Gore.

UNITED NATIONS: More than 2,000 people around the world are dying from armed violence each day, on average, advocacy groups said on Tuesday, urging nations to launch negotiations on a treaty to regulate the arms trade.

GIHINGA, 6 October 2009 - Police in Burundi have forcibly prevented a group of refugees from leaving a camp because they intended to trek home to Democratic Republic of Congo, according to residents.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Democratic Republic of Congo - Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband" report to their offering.

Oct 7 - One of the four most wanted suspects from Rwanda's 1994 genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, has been arrested after entering Uganda from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thousands of Congolese citizens are being deported from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo under alarming circumstances, say humanitarian workers.

The United Nations refugee agency today warned more than 2,000 Congolese sheltering in Burundi against returning to their homes in conflict-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo .

NEW DELHI: As the Indian Air Force's scintillating Surya Kiran Aerobatics Team takes to the sky during the Air Force Day parade Thursday, it might well be its last display.

Police in Uganda have arrested one of the most wanted suspects from Rwanda's 1994 genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, a senior police source said on Tuesday.

One of Africa's biggest grocery stores and JSE-listed company's, Shoprite Holdings, plans to start trading in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the end of 2010 or early 2011.

A 19-year-old Vancouver man has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with the arson attack on an east Vancouver townhouse that killed four members of one family and a family friend a year ago.

Kinshasa - Nine people drowned and 100 were reported missing when a boat capsized and sank on Monday on a river in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo, river authorities said on Tuesday.

Sunday, October 04, 2009 ISTANBUL: African economies should recover fairly quickly when the global economy gains strength and debt levels in the region are not troubling, the International Monetary Fund's top official for Africa said on Saturday.

An island in the middle of the Lukenie river in the central Congo basin of the Democratic Republic of Congo .

Alarmed by the sharp spike in sexual violence against women, the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged governments and the United Nations itself to crack down on the soldiers and civilians who rape and torture with impunity.

More than 60 countries, led by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asked the United Nations on Wednesday to appoint a special envoy for a global fight against the rape of women and children during war.

New Delhi, Oct 1 : The Indian Air Force will soon float tenders for new trainers as its fleet of basic pilot trainer HPT-32 has been grounded following a spate of crashes and engine failures.

Njabulo Ncube, Political Editor THE message that came out of the just ended two-day Southern African Devel-opment Community in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, can be recapped in very few words: SADC no longer has the time nor patience for the so-called outstanding issues.