But regulations, governance and corruption all
pose challenges.
Seventy-six people were killed in Monday’s rail disaster in Yanga, Congo, according to the latest toll.
A train derailed and plunged into a ravine in Congo Republic, killing about 60 people, sources said on Tuesday.
Politics makes nonsense of the DRC’s courts but the international court is setting a good example.
The DRC is going through "one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world", the United Nations said on Friday.
In the east of this vast country, ongoing rebel attacks and poor healthcare have produced a generation of mourning mothers and fathers.
Ten years after fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Muzungu Makoi says he is still haunted by the massacres and refuses to leave Zambia.
More than a decade and billions of dollars after UN peacekeepers deployed to the DRC during a civil war, President Joseph Kabila wants them out.
The number of rapes carried out by civilians in eastern DRC has increased 17-fold in the last few years, according to a study released on Thursday.
A withdrawal of the UN mission in the DRC in 2011, as sought by Kinshasa, would be "premature," France’s UN ambassador said on Tuesday.
The UN said on Tuesday that it has protested Zambia’s move to deport dozens of DRC refugees after they took part in a demonstration.
Former Hutu rebel Epiphany Mukamana did a little jig when she told of her pleasure at being able to escape her one-time base in a dense DRC forest.
The DRC on Tuesday dismissed Human Rights Watch charges that Ugandan rebels had killed about 300 people in December.
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army said on Monday a report that its members killed hundreds of villagers in the DRC late last year was fabricated.
Fighters from Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army have hacked or beaten to death at least 321 Congolese villagers.
He has lost his family and only the UN guards at his camp now keep him safe. But when they go, what will happen?
Biso na Biso 88FM is a pioneering local radio project serving pygmy communities in the Congo Basin.
The war-crimes trial of former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, due to have started on April 27, has been postponed to July 5.
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/ 24 February 2010
South Africa has notified the UN Security Council that it seized a shipment of North Korean arms bound for the DRC in violation of UN resolutions.
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/ 16 February 2010
Rwandan Hutu rebels murdered seven women in the east of the DRC, the head of the United Nations mission in the country, Alan Doss, said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 February 2010
Five goats and some money used to be the price to forget a rape in south-east DRC, but UN staff are telling women they can now go to court.
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/ 6 February 2010
The casual sportsman in an oasis of luxury amid the poverty of Goma, in the DRC, is a man the United Nations would prefer did not exist at all.
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/ 14 December 2009
A UN-backed military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has caused more civilian casualties than damage to rebels, rights groups said.
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/ 2 December 2009
Former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba poses a flight risk and a threat to witnesses and must remain in custody, a judge said on Wednesday.
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/ 12 November 2009
The UN head of peacekeeping in the DRC has rejected accusations that the organisation is complicit in war crimes Congolese troops allegedly committed.
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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
Rights groups on Tuesday blasted Kinshasa’s ”disastrous” military operation to neutralise Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Congo.
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/ 13 October 2009
Human rights groups say that more than 1 000 civilians have been killed and about 900 000 displaced in eastern Congo since January.
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/ 16 September 2009
Congo Republic’s re-elected President Denis Sassou-Nguesso named his new government late on Tuesday, abolishing the post of prime minister.
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/ 8 September 2009
The Republic of the Congo has offered Agri SA 10-million hectares for South African farmers to produce maize and soya beans.
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/ 7 September 2009
As many as 320 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by the LRA as it extends its abduction and terror raids.
The DRC military said Saturday it had killed or captured more than 500 Rwandan Hutu rebels after an offensive launched six weeks ago.