Three soldiers and a policeman have been arrested for stealing from the bodies of passengers who died in a plane crash in the DRC this month.
A plane carrying 112 passengers has crashed on its way from Kinshasa to Kisangani, leaving dozens dead and 53 survivors injured, a DRC airline says.
Government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo raped at least 121 women over a three-day period, the United Nations said on Friday.
Investigators have recovered the flight order of a UN plane that crashed near Kinshasa in the DRC on Monday, leaving 32 people dead.
Thirty-two people including UN officials and peacekeepers were killed on Monday when a plane crashed on landing in heavy rain in the DRC capital.
At least 20 UN workers were killed when their plane crashed on Monday while trying to land in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital Kinshasa.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has freed two Americans, a Frenchman and two Nigerians accused of gold smuggling.
SA is talking to the DRC to revive a stalled hydropower project on the Congo River, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday.
The tip-off led intelligence agents to an US jet loaded with half a tonne of gold, a Houston diamond merchant and a car chase that produced $6,8m.
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/ 21 February 2011
A DRC court has sentenced a colonel to 20 years in the highest-profile rape case ever held in the massive state where sexual violence is endemic.
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/ 17 February 2011
A South African working for a British oil company has been released unharmed after he was kidnapped in the volatile eastern DRC.
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/ 15 February 2011
The government is trying to verify whether the person kidnapped while working for a British oil company in the DRC is a South African.
Confirmation by DRC President Joseph Kabila has embroiled Khulubuse Zuma in a legal dispute with a leading oil company in Africa.
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/ 12 February 2011
Systematic sexual violence continues to be carried out against Congolese women and girls caught up in expulsions from Angola to the DRC, the UN said.
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/ 8 February 2011
The UN Security Council on Monday raised new concerns over rapes and other attacks on women and children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fifty years on, we have yet to discover the extent of colonialism’s legacy on the continent.
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/ 13 January 2011
(DRC government troops have been blamed for abuses, including rapes and looting, in of Sud-Kivu to avenge the death of one of their colleagues.
More than 30 women were raped in a coordinated attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo on New Year’s Day.
He has been shamed by the UN, accused of murder, rape and abusing child soldiers in the DRC, but nothing it seems can stop Innocent Zimurinda.
Look no further than Nigeria, the DRC, Algeria, Sudan and our own backyard to get a glimpse of what’s to come. <b>Adekeye Adebajo</b> reports
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/ 18 December 2010
Prosecutors said two senior Rwandan Hutu rebel leaders have been indicted for allegedly masterminding from Germany atrocities in the DRC.
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/ 14 December 2010
An alliance of 19 international aid organisations on Tuesday called for more to be done to prevent another Christmas massacre by rebels from the LRA.
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/ 10 December 2010
WikiLeaks has released a secret diplomatic United States embassy cable listing two SA companies seen as critical to American interests.
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/ 9 December 2010
Rescuers say an SA man leading two Americans on a whitewater expedition in Central Africa was attacked by a crocodile and pulled from his kayak.
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/ 7 December 2010
As the trial of the Congolese rebel leader gets under way, political analysts will go into overdrive about what the case means for the DRC.
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/ 2 December 2010
An United Nations Security Council committee blacklisted a commander in the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for ordering massacres.
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/ 22 November 2010
Former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba of the DRC goes on trial on Monday for rapes and murders allegedly committed by his troops.
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/ 15 November 2010
Three African leaders and their families are to be investigated in Paris for allegedly embezzling state funds to acquire vast assets in France.
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/ 11 November 2010
Unicef gets ready to launch a mass immunisation campaign in the Republic of Congo, after an outbreak of polio claimed 97 lives in under a week.
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/ 11 November 2010
Over 700 women, men and children were raped when Angola expelled thousands of people back to the DRC over the past two
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/ 29 October 2010
Each day Joyce goes out into the bush and assembles five tiny bundles of wood for sale, only to have one taken from her by former rebels.
"Does the devil live in the Democratic Republic of Congo? It would appear so," writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>