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/ 4 November 2009
A top human rights group is accusing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) military of killing more than 500 civilians in eastern DRC.
Scientists found evidence of volcanic activity — including tremors, pools of lava and plumes of smoke — at two volcanoes near Goma in the DRC.
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/ 14 October 2008
Heavy fighting in the eastern DRC has driven at least 1 700 people from a refugee camp, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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/ 7 September 2008
United Nations peacekeepers said on Saturday they had negotiated the departure of a rebel army from a village in the DRC’s lawless east.
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/ 20 November 2007
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is setting aside more than 30 000 square kilometres of rainforest to help protect the endangered bonobo, a great ape that is the most closely related to humans and is found only in this Central African country. The area amounts to just more than 1% of the vast DRC.
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/ 10 November 2007
A government official in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) suspected of ordering up to 17 tonnes of radioactive waste dumped in a river in the south-east of the country has been arrested, authorities said on Friday. Environment Minister Didace Pembe declined to identify the person who was arrested.
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/ 8 September 2007
Fresh clashes have erupted between a renegade general and government troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The United Nations said violence in the region was hampering efforts to deliver food to tens of thousands of displaced
civilians.
At least 29 people were killed over the weekend by Rwandan rebels wielding machetes, sticks and hammers who descended on a village in far eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a United Nations official said. The bodies of 17 villagers killed in their sleep were recovered on Sunday.
A total of 149 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soldiers loyal to an ex-rebel leader have been disarmed after turning themselves in to a United Nations base. The soldiers, formerly loyal to ex-warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, began turning themselves in last month, after a two-day clash left at least 150 dead.
The personal armies of two former Congolese rebel leaders have refused to disband as promised, ignoring this week’s deadline. The personal guard of Jean-Pierre Bemba as well as that of Azarias Ruberwa have continued their armed patrols, refusing to turn over the security of the ex-rebels to the country’s police force.