Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo News

Among those on death row in foreign countries is dual British and Norwegian national Joshua French, 27, who has been sentenced to death by firing squad by a military tribunal in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Recent reports have come out in the past week about outbreaks of deadly meningococcal meningitis in Africa and South America .

KISANGANI, Democratic Republic of Congo - One day Rene Ngongo was given a satellite map.

KAMPALA, 8 December 2009 - An outbreak of meningitis that killed more than a dozen students from the same school last week has spread throughout the city of Kisangani, in central Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Monday.

An appeal court in the Democratic Republic of Congo upheld a death sentence against Joshua French, a former British soldier.

'I found a living Church, eager to make her contribution to human promotion and development in the area," says Fr.

A former British soldier from Margate sentenced to death by firing squad is still waiting to see if judges have decided to grant his appeal, human rights campaigners said.

By Thomas Hubert Kinshasa - A military court in Congo sentenced two Norwegians to death on Tuesday and ordered them and their government to pay over $60-million in damages after the pair were convicted of murder and espionage.

Uganda's former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend's flat in the capital, Kampala.

Two Norwegians sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month have begun an appeal against the sentence, judicial sources said on Tuesday.

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.

The Sixth General Congregation of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops took place in the Vatican's Synod Hall this morning.

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.

A human rights activist and former presidential candidate has been arrested by the Congolese government for allegedly trying to foment rebellion in the troubled eastern province of the vast African nation.

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday denounced an activist of the non-governmental organization for preparing a rebel movement in the central African country's restive eastern region.

Koffi Olomide is set to put the local rhumba music fanatics on fire when he performs in Botswana during the Independence weekend in the countrys two capital cities.

Church leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo are urging the government of the central African nation to rescind death sentences pronounced on two Norwegians - writes Fredrick Nzwili .

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere says the sentencing of the two Norwegian citizens to death by a military tribunal in Kisangani, DR Congo on Tuesday, is completely unacceptable.

A British man sentenced to death for murder in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the victim of corruption, his family have said.

Two Norwegian men have been condemned to death in Kisangani in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.