Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo News

Tuesday 30 June in the Paul VI Hall, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI received in audience the new Archbishops on whom he had imposed the Pallium the day before the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul.

Engen, an African energy multinational, recently won a tender for the year-long supply of aviation fuel to Kenya Airways, at the Democratic Republic of Congo's Lubumbashi airport.

The Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs has contacted the Government of the Republic of Congo to discuss the situation for two Norwegians who have been jailed, accused of murdering their driver.

Infrastructure ministers from Partner States of the East African Community have called for a new design of the East African Railway Master Plan to cater for links to neighboring countries.

The Lorda s Resistance Army rebels on Thursday ambushed and killed two UPDF soldiers including an unidentified officer in Banda, Ango territory, more than 600km from Kisangani, Daily Monitor has learnt.

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Ugandan rebels hacked 12 people to death and kidnapped 40 more in a remote Congolese village near the end of a three-month multinational offensive against them, rights activists and relatives said on Friday.

Hundreds of newly trained national police officers are being deployed to the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a stabilization plan backed by the United Nations, the world body's ...

The United Nations and the Congolese Government have decided to fast-track the implementation of the Stabilization plan for eastern DRC, with the deployment of 332 Congolese police officers in North Kivu.

Kisangani - On Saturday 28 February 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kisangani, capital of Province Orientale.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon Saturday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo's leader to buttress peace in the country's volatile east after a successful military offensive against Rwandan Hutu rebels.

Congo's president said Saturday that troops from former enemies Rwanda and Uganda, who are carrying out joint operations against armed militias in the east, must leave this Central African nation by the end of February.

Ugandan soldiers have been fighting Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the northeast since December, while Rwandan troops were invited in this month to hunt down Rwandan militias linked to that nation's 1994 genocide.

President Joseph Kabila made the announcement in the capital, Kinshasa, telling reporters the foreign armies' presence 'must not last beyond the month of February.'

Depending on who you talk to, General Laurent Nkunda has either spent four years protecting his Tutsi tribemates from Hutu genocidaires or he is a Rwandan-backed troublemaker, intent on destabilising the ...

Reports from non-governmental organisations and the United Nations on the humanitarian situation in the north-eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo state that over 400 civilians were killed at the ...