The boys were fishing when the rebel fighters struck, dragging them off for a slave life in one of the world’s most notorious guerrilla armies.
Congo wants to amend the terms of a multi-million hectare land deal with South African farmers, a top aide said on Wednesday.
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called for the arrest and punishment of those responsible for the widespread sexual violence in the DRC.
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An Air France plane hit a building just after landing in Brazzaville and was banned from taking off with any passengers, an official said on Thursday.
Swiss authorities on Thursday lifted a 12-year freeze on nearly $7-million in assets the late Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko held in Switzerland.
Congo was counting votes on Monday after an election expected to extend veteran President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s long rule.
At least four mortar shells pounded a northern working-class district of the Congo capital Brazzaville overnight, causing heavy damage.
Uganda’s army announced on Wednesday the capture of a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army.
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/ 25 February 2009
Rwanda’s Hutu rebels in the DRC have been seriously weakened but not eliminated by a month-long joint military operation, Rwanda said on Wednesday.
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/ 29 January 2009
The first witness at the ICC’s inaugural war-crimes trial retracted his testimony on Wednesday after saying he was a former child soldier.
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/ 27 January 2009
DRC warlord Thomas Lubanga was accused on Monday of press-ganging children and using them to kill and rape, as the ICC’s first trial opened.
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/ 24 January 2009
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda was under arrest Friday in neighbouring Rwanda awaiting extradition on war crimes charges.
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/ 15 January 2009
A commander who claims to have overthrown Laurent Nkunda as rebel leader in eastern DRC has set up a ruling committee, his spokesperson says.
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/ 21 December 2008
As militiamen rape and kill hundreds of women in the war-ravaged east of the DRC, Kinshasa has witnessed a growing wave of sexual attacks on women.
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/ 11 December 2008
At least 150 civilians were massacred in a Democratic Republic of Cong town last month, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
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/ 10 December 2008
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebels and Kinshasa government officials met for a third day of talks in Nairobi on Wednesday.
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/ 3 December 2008
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday it is extending its humanitarian operations across the eastern DRC.
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/ 27 November 2008
Rebels in eastern DRC clashed again on Thursday with pro-government groups, both sides said, each accusing the other of attempted encroachment.
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/ 27 November 2008
Rebels in eastern DRC have violated a fragile ceasefire and seized more territory, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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/ 17 November 2008
Congolese rebel forces said on Monday they had taken new territory and threatened more attacks against government troops.
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/ 11 November 2008
Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said they were holding to a ceasefire despite some skirmishes.
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/ 6 November 2008
Rebels and pro-government militia clashed for a second successive day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday.
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/ 4 November 2008
Rebels in the east of the DRC accused the government of declaring "war on its people" by refusing to negotiate.
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/ 27 October 2008
DRC President Joseph Kabila named a new government on Monday in a bid to pacify a country shaken by an upsurge in rebel violence.
Sitting at a small clinic in the Talangai area, north of Congo’s capital, Brazzaville, Elise Diamba holds the hands of her malnourished two-year old grandson. "Gérard’s mother stopped breastfeeding him when he was seven months," the 61-year old grandmother says. "He hadn’t even started walking. Since then, his health has not been good."
The first round of Congo’s legislative elections was marked by chaos on Sunday, with long delays, protesters crying foul and about 40 smaller opposition parties boycotting the ballot. In neighbourhoods of the capital, Brazzaville, and the economic capital, Pointe-Noire, several polling stations had still not opened by noon.
President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s ruling party is expected to be the big winner of legislative elections on Sunday in Congo, where opposition complaints have had little impact. Sassou Nguesso has been back in controversy this week after French prosecutors started investigating allegations that he used embezzled state funds to buy luxury Paris apartments.
The remains of one of the few white colonists still held in regard in Africa were reinterred on Tuesday in a glass and marble mausoleum in the city named after him, Brazzaville. The body of the Franco-Italian explorer Pierre de Brazza was exhumed in Algeria last week and flown to the capital of the Congo.
A Congolese court on Wednesday acquitted all 15 defendants in the trial over the 1999 murder of about 350 refugees in Brazzaville after finding them not guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. However the court ordered the Congolese government to pay 10-million CFA francs to the relatives of 86 of the missing refugees.
The trial opens in Brazzaville on Tuesday of 16 people accused of slaughtering dozens of President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s opponents in the explosive case of the ”beach missing”. The trial of those charged with the killing of people who disappeared after returning from exile in 1999 marks the last chapter in a political and legal saga that has touched both Congo and France.