Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The International Criminal Court, ICC, has had to delay proceedings in the trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngujolo, taking place in The Hague, after one of the judges was involved in a road accident. The trial will now start again on January 26.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Supporters of the rebel group FDLR in North America and Europe are part of "a far-reaching international diaspora network involved in the day-to-day running of the movement, the co-ordination of military and arms trafficking activities and the management of financial activities," the UN panel says.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
In an effort to shine a light on the darkness at the heart of the world's deadliest conflict since the Second World War, the Enough Project travelled to eastern Congo to better understand how the 3Ts (Tin, Tantalum, and Tungsten) and gold make their way from Congo's killing fields to our cell phones, laptops, MP3 players and video game systems.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Mazorro Resources Inc. ("Mazorro" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: MZO)(FRANKFURT: JAM) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement in principle (the"Agreement") with Congo Mining Company sprl ("CMC") of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC"). Under the terms of the Agreement, Mazorro has agreed...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
As the rape and death toll mount in military offensives against Hutu rebels in eastern Congo, a key leader of the military campaign is forming his own paramilitary group, the United Nations has said.
IOL (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
A South African diplomat has been wounded after failing to stop at a roadblock in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign minister has said.
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The United Nations Security Council voted earlier this week to renew sanctions on rebel groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The sanctions, first imposed in 2003 and renewed for a further year, target rebel groups such as the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR), who have been operating in the DRC during its many years of civil war and chronic...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Sudanese are registering in substantial numbers for their first multi-party elections in 24 years, although opposition is citing irregularities and those displaced from Darfur are refusing to take part unless peace is established, reports Le Potentiel of Kinshasa.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Security Council, condemning the continuing illicit traffic of weapons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, decided this morning to extend and expand the arms embargo there and its related sanctions regime until 30 November 2010.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Today, on 2 December 2009, Judge Akua Kuenyehia, Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC), delivered a summary of the judgment reversing the decision of Pre-Trial Chamber II that had granted the request of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo for interim release, albeit under conditions.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
In a bid to clean up the Congolese judiciary, the authorities are seeking to appoint as many as 1,000 new magistrates in the country over the next two years.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
KINSHASA, Congo -- A police official says four people died when a jail cell wall fell on them during an attempted prison escape in Congo's capital.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Nairobi/Kinshasa - At least 71 people died when a logging boat with no authorization to carry passengers sank in a lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports said Saturday. Dominic Lutula, president of the Congolese Red Cross, told the United ...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 73 people were killed and others missing after a logging boat sank in a lake in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a Red Cross official said on Saturday.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the shooting attack on a United Nations helicopter on Thursday in Dongo in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that left three peacekeepers, a civilian pilot and one member of the Congolese national police wounded.
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