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/ 3 February 2007
Nearly 100 people died and 30 others were wounded this week in clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that erupted when demonstrators protesting alleged electoral fraud rampaged through several towns and security forces tried to restore order, rights groups and humanitarian organisations said.
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/ 12 December 2006
Thousands of people have been displaced by about a week of heavy flooding in the north-western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), United Nations and government officials said on Monday. Many houses were washed away, while some in low-lying areas were completely inundated, a local official said.
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/ 28 November 2006
A volcano has erupted near the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), spewing lava in an area devastated by a major eruption four years ago. The area around Goma has seen days of clashes between forces loyal to a dissident former general and the DRC’s army that have killed at least three people.
A small passenger plane crashed into a mountain and then tumbled into a valley in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing all 17 passengers and crew, officials said on Friday. The Antonov An-28 carrying 14 passengers and three Ukrainian crew members went down on Thursday afternoon.
Thirteen people, including one soldier, were killed in political violence as campaigning began for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) first competitive elections in decades. Demonstrators in the western city of Matadi attacked and killed the soldier on Friday before troops retaliated, said Christian Malidini, of DRC’s Association of Human Rights Defenders.
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/ 23 January 2006
Unidentified assailants ambushed United Nations peacekeepers from Guatemala in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, sparking an hours-long gunbattle that left eight UN troops dead, officials said. Fourteen UN peacekeepers were wounded in the attack in Garamba National Park.
South African President Thabo Mbeki visited the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday amid a spiraling political crisis threatening a peace process largely brokered by South Africa to end the DRC’s five-year war. DRC President Joseph Kabila gave an airport welcome to Mbeki, who has played a key role in helping to end the 1998-2003 conflict and launch a national-unity government.
Massive illicit digging at the uranium mine that fuelled the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs threatens to put the mine’s nuclear ore into terrorist hands, United Nations investigators warned on Tuesday. The 15 000 miners working at the east Democratic Republic of Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine risk contracting cancer and developing other health problems because of high radiation levels.
The Democratic of Congo’s (DRC) president signed a new power-sharing government into being on Monday, joining his government and rebels in an administration meant to lead the central African nation out of nearly 5 years of war.
Rival ethnic groups renewed battle with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars in the streets of an eastern Congo city, as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan struggled to muster a major international force to quell the bloodletting.