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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.
Heavy fighting in the eastern DRC has driven at least 1 700 people from a refugee camp, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
United Nations peacekeepers said on Saturday they had negotiated the departure of a rebel army from a village in the DRC’s lawless east.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Unidentified assailants ambushed United Nations peacekeepers from Guatemala in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, sparking an hours-long gunbattle…
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…
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…
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…
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…
