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Old wounds being aggravated by DRC vote

Walls plastered with campaign posters from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s historic elections are newly peppered with bullet holes. Tank fire has smashed buildings just down…

Uneasy truce in Kinshasa after days of clashes

Businesses reopened and people reappeared on Kinshasa’s streets on Wednesday as fighting appeared to have ceased following three days of clashes between troops loyal to the two…

DRC elections pushed back again

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) long-delayed elections have been pushed back again, at least week beyond the earlier scheduled June 18 date, an Electoral Commission…

Quake sows havoc in central Africa

A powerful earthquake toppled homes onto children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, killing at least one child in a region already beset by war, poverty and…

‘Animals are for us to eat’

Former poacher Guillaume Kasereka once used a rusty Russian-made rocket launcher to kill hippos for meat in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) forests. These days, he says,…

Scientists scratch heads over tool-using gorillas

An infant gorilla in a Democratic Republic of Congo sanctuary is smashing palm nuts between two rocks to extract oil, surprising and intriguing scientists who say they have much…

‘Everything could be eaten by the volcano again’

Nicolas Muhamiriza (47) was once the owner of a thriving bottling plant. Now he’s among thousands in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Goma who struggle to pay…