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Is the Congolese government of Joseph Kabila using the international press to wage a propaganda war against the new rebel fighters in eastern Congo? This is possible and probable given the amount of disinformation disseminated by the foreign press in recent days.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Rival armed groups in Congo's eastern provinces are targeting each other's families, killing children, women and the elderly in some of the country's worst violence in years, officials said on Friday. The fighting, which UN agency UNICEF says has cost up to 80 lives since early May, comes amid a security vacuum in parts of the vast forested region after Congo's army ...
[New Times] A senior commander of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) militia operating in the DRC, Col. Etienne Mbarushimana, and eight other rebels recently surrendered.
[ICRC] Violence is continuing in the Kivus, where it is spreading to the most remote and difficult-to-reach areas, with tragic consequences. The ICRC is concerned about the rising number of civilian victims. It is calling on all parties to the conflict to spare the civilian population. See below video interview with Frédéric Boyer, head of the ICRC's sub-delegation in North Kivu.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says a new rebellion in eastern Congo has spread to remote and difficult-to-reach areas, causing the humanitarian situation to deteriorate significantly.
A group of former rebels who have mutinied from the Democratic Republic of Congo's army say they are repelling renewed attacks by regular forces.
Kinshasa (Congo), May 25 (Xinhua-ANI): The mutiny by soldiers of the DR Congo Armed Forces (FARDC) at Katchanga area of North-Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) could have resulted into deaths of almost 100 people, a source from the North-Kivu civil society has said.
Poachers around a Republic of Congo park have killed 5 000 elephants over 5 years.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Phil and Sarah Torrens marvel at the awful symmetry. They lost a son, yet gained another. They went from darkness to light. And, at the same time, with their help, so did Makorobondo "Dee" Salukombo. When he was 12, Dee escaped with his family from the civil war ravaging his native Congo, eventually finding hope and a home in a new country thanks to the Torrenses and others who ...
One-quarter of the world's entire mountain gorilla population is under threat from sustained fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Debt campaigners are set to demonstrate outside the Supreme Court tomorrow against a bunch of vulture capitalists trying to pick £64 million off the bones of the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Democratic Republic of Congo coach Claude Le Roy is unhappy with how his team have been made to prepare for the upcoming World Cup 2014 and Africa Cup of Nations qualifying games.
[UN News] The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has stepped up civilian protection measures following the latest outbreak of violence in the volatile North Kivu province, in the country's east, where a former rebel leader indicted for war crimes instigated a mutiny last month, a UN official said today.
NAIROBI — Eastern Congo has erupted between the Congolese army and rebels loyal to Bosco Ntaganda. The conflict, which erupted last month, has forced tens of thousands of Congolese from their homes, with more than 8,000 crossing the border to neighboring Rwanda and up to 15,000 entering Uganda. read more
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Twenty five mutineers loyal to a renegade general have been killed in clashes with the army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said on Monday. The east of the central African country remains unstable nearly a decade after the formal end of a vicious civil war which sucked in neighbouring countries and left millions dead. ...
Two former Congolese militia leaders accused of war crimes on Wednesday denied knowledge of an attack in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo in which 200 villagers were massacred.
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