Kinshasa News

Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- At least 73 people died when an improvised ferry sank in bad weather on a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, officials say. Dominique Lutula, head of the Red Cross...

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...

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...

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...

On Friday, Doctors without Borders denounced the attacks in the eastern province of North Kivu as "an abuse of humanitarian action." "MSF denounces this clearly unacceptable abuse of humanitarian aid for military purposes," a statement by the medical group read....

The National Commission for Refugees (CNR) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced on Tuesday in Kinshasa that out of the expected number of 18,549 Congolese refugees residing in Zambia, 14,419 were repatriated to the DRC in 2009.     CNR...

When Franco Luambo Makiadi died 20 years ago, the whole of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire), stood still. The death of the undisputed king of rumba was a shock to millions of people not just...

A call on the Congolese Government to urgently take necessary action to rehabilitate Lemera Hospital destroyed unjustly after being used as launching site of the war that led Kabila to power. MJPC has launched a website calling for President Kabila...