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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/ 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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/ 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.
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.
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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No matter where she goes, it seems that Hillary Clinton cannot quite escape the international shadow cast by her husband.
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.
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.