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/ 27 September 2008
The ICC has ruled there were sufficient grounds to try two militiamen accused of seeking to wipe out an entire village in the DRC in 2003.
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/ 23 September 2008
Fresh fighting broke out Monday between the army and rebel militia in the east of the DRC, with government forces claiming to have killed 20 rebels.
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/ 22 September 2008
Unicef on Monday urged the immediate release of 90 children kidnapped in the DRC by rebels from Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army.
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/ 18 September 2008
Army forces and insurgents were battling in a number of villages in eastern DRC on Wednesday in the latest fighting to flout a truce, the UN said.
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/ 13 September 2008
UN peacekeepers shot and killed rebel fighters in the DRC on Friday as a renegade Tutsi leader said he had asked his troops to withdraw.
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/ 11 September 2008
UN peacekeepers in the DRC have transferred troops to hot spots in the east of the country to handle the fall-out of increased fighting.
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/ 7 September 2008
United Nations peacekeepers said on Saturday they had negotiated the departure of a rebel army from a village in the DRC’s lawless east.
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/ 5 September 2008
Fighting resumed on Friday between government troops and rebels in eastern DRC in a new breach of a truce agreement, sources on both sides said.
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/ 4 September 2008
SA consular officials are trying to verify the identity of a 23-year-old pilot killed in the DRC, with a view to returning his remains to SA.
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/ 3 September 2008
All 17 people aboard a humanitarian aid plane died when it crashed into a mountain in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN said on Wednesday.
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/ 2 September 2008
A humanitarian plane carrying 17 passengers and crew that was reported missing in eastern DRC has crashed into a mountain, a UN official said.
Given the record of Belgium’s King Leopold II in the DRC, the choice of Emmanuel de Merode as director of Virunga National Park may raise eyebrows.
Fighting has broken out between rebels and the army in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations said.
Poachers in the DRC have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa’s oldest national park this year, the park’s director said on Friday.
Imagine living with a 50% chance of being enslaved or threatened with death. In some parts of the DRC, such a life doesn’t take much imagination.
The Democratic Republic of Congo should cancel more than three quarters of its logging deals for not meeting necessary standards, a report said.
For the first time in international law victims of war crimes can take part in investigations and trials at the ICC.
Veteran world-music star Papa Wendo, considered the father of the Congolese rumba, has died aged 82, an NGO announced.
More than 2 000 rape cases were recorded last month alone in DRC’s violent North Kivu province, a new report said on Tuesday.
At least 42 passengers drowned and more than 100 are missing after their boat sank on the river Oubangui in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The government of the DRC on Tuesday denounced the alleged embezzlement of ,3-billion by public companies and finance officials.
Six months after a peace accord, human rights in the DRC’s eastern province of Nord-Kivu have not improved, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Parliament passed a law on Saturday giving amnesty for acts of war and rebellion in the east of the country.
Judges at the International Criminal Court have called an indefinite halt to the case against a Congolese militia leader and will decide next week.
The United Nations Security Council renewed a push for civilian rule in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s militia-plagued east on Sunday as efforts continue to disarm rebel groups.
United Nations peacekeepers are protecting a camp of civilians forced to flee fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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/ 20 December 2006
”What did we do before we used candles?” ”We had electricity.” This joke has been told of various countries in Africa, perhaps none so fittingly as Democratic Republic of Congo. Fresh from its first free elections in over 40 years, Africa’s third biggest country may finally live up to its name