All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Paris Club of creditor nations is close to reaching an accord on debt relief for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said yesterday, as a newspaper reported an agreement has been stalled by the US and Canada.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
United Nations peacekeepers helped passengers and provided emergency medical treatment today after an airliner with 117 passengers on board over-ran the airstrip in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
KINSHASA, Congo -- A U.N.-run radio station says a passenger plane overshot a runway in eastern Congo and landed in lava, injuring 20 people.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Is Congo’s President Joseph Kabila flirting with dictatorship? AFTER 32 years of rapacious dictatorship under Mobutu Sese Seko and nearly a decade of chaos following his demise in 1997, Congo’s elections in 2006 marked the first time the people of the former Belgian colony had gone to the polls in a free and fair vote for four decades. It was a rare moment of hope for a better future....
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord's Resistance Army leaders with a series of brutal crimes they are accused of perpetrating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Kinshasa's population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day. The Régie de distribution des eaux (REGIDESO) produces only 425,000 cubic metres - vast neighbourhoods like Kitokimosi and Mpasa receive almost none of this water.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A United Nations report released today criticizes the judicial process in a Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) military court in connection with the trial of a murdered Congolese journalist, including the alleged bribery of the presiding judges.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has pledged no more suspensions of logistical support after putting on halt the backing to a Congolese army unit for involvement in civilian killing. "It will not be a good sign to increase logistical support suspensions from MONUC to FARDC," the commandant of the Force of UN mission in Congo (MONUC), general Babacar Gaye, declared...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The top priority for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the protection of civilians from abuse, be it from the Government forces that it is mandated to support or armed rebel groups, a senior official said today.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has urged its citizens who recently fled inter-ethnic clashes in the western DRC province of Equateur and sought refuge in the Republic of Congo, to return home, saying calm has been restored in their villages.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Guinea's opposition has rejected a proposal for a government of national unity which would include the military junta which seized power last December, reports Le Potentiel of Kinshasa.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Three Ukrainian sailors from the Island of Luck cargo vessel accused of a murder in the Congo will be tried in the capital Kinshasa
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have launched a fund to help the vast country recover from years of devastating civil war that ended earlier this decade, and continuing strife in its eastern provinces that has displaced more than a million people.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Boosted by the acquisition of three new aircrafts, Rwandair is set to introduce flights to Goma, Bukavu and Kinshasa in DR Congo next month.
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