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...

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said he had received the guarantee from his DRC counterpart, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba. Joshua French, who holds joint British-Norwegian nationality, and Tjostolv Moland were convicted in September of murdering a taxi driver and spying.

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...

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...

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...