Brutalised villagers who fear they’ve nothing left to lose cry out for help.
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/ 13 October 2010
UN representative meets victims as international criminal court sends team to investigate sexual assaults on villagers.
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/ 11 October 2010
Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana, wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DRC, was arrested in Paris on Monday.
The International Criminal Court will rule on Friday whether to release accused Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, after his lawyers argued the trial, the court’s first, violated his rights.
A rebel commander accused of helping to lead an attack in which more than 300 villagers were raped in the DRC has been given up for arrest.
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/ 29 September 2010
The draft UN mapping report detailing crimes by armed forces in the DRC is an inventory of atrocities committed with impunity over a 10-year period.
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/ 27 September 2010
An expert on the DRC warned a precious-metals conference that the industry faced a "PR disaster" unless it tackled the problem of "blood gold".
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/ 26 September 2010
A dispute between two London-listed mining giants over copper assets in the DRC has shone a spotlight on business risks in the corrupt country.
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/ 18 September 2010
First the soldiers told residents of the villages in the mineral-rich eastern DRC not to worry. They were just there for a rest and would do no harm.
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/ 14 September 2010
The Uganda army on Tuesday dismissed accusations in a leaked UN draft report that it committed war crimes in the DRC in the 1990s.
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/ 8 September 2010
The United Nations reported on Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern DRC since late July.
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/ 4 September 2010
A United Nations monitoring team looking into recent attacks in eastern DRC has documented sexual attacks against 28 youths, including one boy.
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/ 3 September 2010
Assistant secretary general to investigate after community leaders say they begged for help before villagers were raped.
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/ 2 September 2010
UN peacekeepers say they have stepped up patrols in a region of the DRC where the number of mass rape victims has increased to more than 240.
Unprecedented investigation by human rights commissioner says Hutu deaths "cannot be put down to margins of war".
Hutu rebels of from Rwanda said on Thursday that they were "in no way involved" in mass rapes reported in the east of the DRC.
A plane crashed after having trouble landing in western Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday, killing at least 19 people.
This is the front line of what has been called "Africa’s world war". More than five-million people have died, mainly from hunger and disease.
Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some young boys over four days within kilometres of a UN peacekeepers’ base.
The deputy head of the UN mission in the DRC has called on the international community for a "big financial effort" to help the country.
Without a doubt, one of Africa’s finest pop moments in 2010 comes from young Congolese MC Baloji.
At least 140 people have died after an ferry overturned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said on Thursday.
DRC President Joseph Kabila left Kinshasa Monday to visit the eastern town of Sange, the site of a fuel tanker blast and fire that claimed 238 lives.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared two days of mourning for 235 people who burned to death when a fuel truck exploded at the weekend.
At least 230 people were killed when a fuel tanker overturned and exploded in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The DRC marks 50 years of independence on Wednesday with the UN’s Ban Ki-moon and the Belgian king among leaders attending the celebrations.
President Joseph Kabila has called for a "moral revolution" in the DRC at ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence.
Uganda’s military was put on heightened alert following an attack inside the DRC by a long-dormant rebel group, an army spokesperson said on Tuesday.
But regulations, governance and corruption all
pose challenges.
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.