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/ 1 September 2009
Ugandan rebels have displaced as many as 320,000 people in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, Unicef chief says.
Shots were fired on the home of the DRC’s foreign minister amid warnings not to testify in the war-crimes trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba.
The ICC on Friday ordered the conditional release of former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba ahead of his war-crimes trial.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday to target an epidemic of sexual assault.
LRA rebels are killing people, raping women and torching homes in north-eastern DRC, the United Nations warned on Friday.
DRC President Joseph Kabila met his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on Thursday for the first official bilateral talks between the states in 13 years.
If you haven’t yet been a victim of the thieves operating in Kinshasa’s Central Market, it’s unwise to boast about it, says Jean-René Bompolonga.
Continued forced displacements in eastern DRC have raised the total number of uprooted people there to 1,8-million, the UN says.
Global Witness report says trade is prolonging conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo between rebels and army, but firms deny wrongdoing.
About 400 000 people have fled violence in the east of DRC since March, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday.
The world’s largest UN peacekeeping effort risks unraveling in the the DRC, hampered by the potential loss of more than a quarter of its troops
At least 90 women have been raped and 180 villagers killed over the past two months in the volatile eastern DRC, a rights group said on Thursday.
The speaker of the DRC’s Parliament, Vital Kamerhe, resigned under pressure on Wednesday for criticising Rwandan military intervention in the country.
The government of the DRC and Tutsi rebels signed a peace deal on Monday under which the rebel movement is to change into a political party.
Uganda will begin withdrawing its troops on Sunday from north-east Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rwanda’s Hutu rebels in the DRC claimed on Friday they had inflicted heavy losses on the forces involved in the joint operation launched against them.
The Ugandan army on Monday killed 16 rebels and rescued 19 people abducted by rebels as part of operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon vowed on Sunday to do more to help hundreds of thousands displaced by unrest in the DRC.
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/ 25 February 2009
Rwandan troops began withdrawing from the DRC on Wednesday, stoking fears that Rwandan Hutu rebels will step up reprisals against civilians.
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/ 24 February 2009
Homemade rifles, physical training and self-confidence are the only weapons Bangadi’s militia have against Ugandan rebels death to the DRC.
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/ 19 February 2009
Early in the morning the warnings came: rebels notorious for vicious attacks on civilians were advancing.
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/ 18 February 2009
A top military official says a joint Congolese-Rwandan military operation to rout out Hutu militias will be finished by the end of the month.
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/ 11 February 2009
Rwandan government radio reported on Wednesday that Rwandan and Congolese troops have destroyed the main bases of Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern DRC.
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/ 5 February 2009
Rebels in the DRC asked Kinshasa this week to grant them immunity for acts carried out during the recent war in the country’s eastern region.
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/ 4 February 2009
An aid group working in eastern DRC is condemning United Nations peacekeepers for not protecting civilians attacked by Ugandan rebels.
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/ 2 February 2009
As the trial of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga starts in The Hague, Stephanie Wolters wonders why his former deputy, Bosco Ntaganda, is still free.
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/ 30 January 2009
A former rebel fighter told ICC judges on Friday that children fought alongside hardened combatants in the Congolese militia leader’s forces.
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/ 29 January 2009
Ugandan LRA rebels killed more than 100 people in a village in DRC in an apparent reprisal for army operations against them, the UN says.
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/ 28 January 2009
A new survey of gorillas living in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park found 10% fewer — 302 rather than 336 — than previous estimates.
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/ 27 January 2009
The armies of the DRC and Rwanda clashed with fighters trying to retake a village and killed four of them, a military spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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/ 27 January 2009
Lawyers for Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga denounced his war crimes trial as unfair on Tuesday, accusing prosecutors of abusing ICC rules.
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/ 23 January 2009
Rich Congolese mineral deposits are both the bounty and the curse of the war-torn nation, the seeds of recovery and the drivers of the bloody conflict