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/ 24 December 2009
The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the strife-torn DRC by five months.
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/ 18 December 2009
A lawmaker from the north-eastern DRC on Friday expressed fears of an attack by Ugandan rebels at Christmas.
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/ 17 December 2009
The European Union on Wednesday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo’s rulers to end violence against civilians in the country.
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/ 16 December 2009
A Human Rights Watch report accusing the DRC soldiers of attacking civilians is ”an attempt to distort the truth”, a minister said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 December 2009
French coach Diego Garzitto has raised the bar to a dizzy height for DRC club Tout Puissant Mazembe ahead of their Fifa Club World Cup debut.
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/ 9 December 2009
The UN Security Council faces a major headache in the DRC, where it must extend but perhaps also rethink the mandate of a UN peacekeeping force.
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/ 2 December 2009
More than 92 000 people have fled sectarian violence in the north-west of the DRC, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says.
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/ 1 December 2009
Lawyers for Laurent Nkunda, a former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have filed a complaint about his ”illegal detention” in Rwanda.
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/ 1 December 2009
More than 44 000 people have fled ethnic violence in the western DRC to seek refuge in the Republic of Congo, aid workers said on Monday.
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/ 29 November 2009
At least 73 people died when two linked barges sank in a lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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/ 27 November 2009
An armed movement calling itself the Patriots-Resistance of Dongo on Friday claimed responsibility for firing at a UN helicopter in the DRC.
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/ 25 November 2009
Military operations have failed to contain Rwandan-Hutu rebels in the DRC and action is needed to restrict their financing, says a report by the UN.
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/ 24 November 2009
The world’s first permanent war crimes court opens its second trial on Tuesday when two Congolese warlords face charges.
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/ 20 November 2009
Authorities in the DRC have approached the UN about scaling down the large UN mission in the country, a government spokesperson said.
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/ 19 November 2009
At least 100 people have been killed in inter-ethnic clashes in north-western DRC that caused 25 000 civilians to flee, the UN said on Wednesday.
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/ 11 November 2009
The changing course of a river marking the natural border between Uganda and the DRC has caused boundary confusion in an oil rich area.
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/ 10 November 2009
The UN Security Council expressed ”deep concern” on Monday about the humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC.
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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.
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/ 2 November 2009
The UN will suspend operational support for certain DRC army units it believes have deliberately killed more than 60 civilians this year.
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/ 30 October 2009
Armed villagers killed at least 47 policemen trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in northern DRC, UN-sponsored radio reported on Friday.
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/ 29 October 2009
South Africa is committed to helping the DRC reconstruct and develop, International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Thursday.
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/ 20 October 2009
About 5 400 women have reported being raped this year in one province of the DRC, the UN said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 October 2009
Tout Puissant Mazembe reached the African Champions League final on Sunday despite a shock 2-0 home loss to Sudanese side Al-Hilal.
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/ 15 October 2009
The Democratic Republic of Congo has extremely alarming levels of hunger, according to the 2009 Global Hunger Index report released this week.
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/ 14 October 2009
Congolese on Wednesday told of being subjected to brutal rapes and lootings when they were thrown out by Luanda.
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/ 14 October 2009
Violence is spreading in northern DRC, where hundreds of thousands have fled clashes between government forces and rebels, MSF said on Wednesday.
About 50 people drowned when an overloaded boat capsized in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), river authorities said Friday.
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/ 16 September 2009
Thousands killed and kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Joseph Kony’s LRA spreads chaos in central Africa.
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/ 9 September 2009
A top UN official has decried possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DRC.
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/ 8 September 2009
A military court in the DRC sentenced two Norwegians to death on Tuesday after the pair were convicted of murder.
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/ 3 September 2009
The ICC on Thursday put on hold the conditional release of Congolese rebel warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, who is facing trial on charges of war crimes.
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/ 1 September 2009
A plane carrying Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe back from a summit in Libya made an emergency landing on an unlit runway in northern Congo.