Congo (Dem. Rep.) News

These adorable dwarf mongooses are the smallest carnivores in Africa, Asia and other countries. They are social creatures that live in groups of two to thirty in dry grassland, brushland and mountain scrub. The dominate female is usually the leader...

2009-11-13 19:13:07     KINSHASA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Van De Geer, said on Thursday that reforms for the DRC armed forces (FARDC) is a priority for the European Union (EU).     The...

A top U.N. human rights investigator on Thursday blasted a U.N.-backed Congolese military operation targeting rebels in eastern Congo, calling its results "catastrophic." "Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, thousands raped, hundreds of villages burnt to the ground and at...

The United Nations will suspend operational support for certain Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army units it believes have deliberately killed more than 60 civilians this year, the UN peacekeeping chief said in an interview aired on Monday. The UN...

Monday on a river in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo, river authorities said today. "The boat HB Trans Nyalongo sank Monday around 10 am at the junction of the Sumbuji and Kasai rivers, 95 kilometres from Tshikapa"...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Two Rwandan rebel leaders accused of committing crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been apprehended, the United Nations said. The United Nations said in a release Thursday...

The mission’s headquarters are near the airport, and it has been aiding a German-funded project to clear lava rock that reduced the length of the runway when the Mt. Nyiragongo volcano erupted in 2002, spewing lava over the a third...

Security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in the country's isolated north last month, the government said on Sunday. Villagers killed 47 policemen sent to...