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BONOBOS PREFER BULLIES OVER 'NICE GUYS'
MIAMI - Sex-crazed, easy-going and cooperative, bonobos are often described as the hippies of the ape world... READ MORE›
DRC VIOLENCE SHOWS KABILA 'DETERMINED TO STAY IN POWER'
Kabila's future Kabila came to power in 2001 after the assassination of his father, Laurent-Desire Kabila, the country's third president... READ MORE›
POLICE ACCUSED OF KILLING TWO DURING ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
The two men were killed outside St. Alphonse church in the Matete district of Kinshasa, the capital, according to Ida Sawyer, HRW's Central Africa director... READ MORE›
UN CHIEF CALLS FOR RESTRAINT, URGES KABILA TO STEP DOWN
Catholic protesters rallied in the capital, Kinshasa, and other cities after Sunday mass to demand Kabila, whose second term as president ended in December 2016, step down... READ MORE›
DRC: DEATH TOLL RISES IN ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
A spokesperson for United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, meanwhile, expressed concern about reports that security forces had violently dispersed the protests... READ MORE›
CONGOLESE FORCES KILL AT LEAST SEVEN DURING PROTESTS OVER PRESIDENT'S REFUSAL TO STEP DOWN
Peacekeeping mission in Congo, said security forces had shot dead at least seven people in Kinshasa... READ MORE›
CONGOLESE FORCES KILL AT LEAST SEVEN DURING ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
Peacekeeping mission in Congo, said security forces had shot dead at least seven people in Kinshasa... READ MORE›
DEADLY CRACKDOWN ON ANTI-PRESIDENT PROTESTS IN DR CONGO
After the altar boys dressed in their liturgical robes were detained other protesters started singing for the Virgin Mary to make Kabila go ... READ MORE›
DRC PROTESTS: 'THREE KILLED' IN ANTI-GOVERNMENT RALLIES
Security forces in the DRC accused of shooting dead two people in Kinshasa and another one in Kananga... READ MORE›
CONGO LAUNCHES DEADLY CRACKDOWN ON ANTI-PRESIDENT PROTESTS
Impatience boiled over on Sunday, with all the vast central African country's main opposition and civil society groups joining in the call for peaceful protests... READ MORE›
CONGO LAUNCHES DEADLY CRACKDOWN ON ANTI-PRESIDENT PROTESTS
Impatience boiled over on Sunday, with all the vast central African country's main opposition and civil society groups joining in the call for peaceful protests... READ MORE›
DRC BLOCKS INTERNET AS ANTI-KABILA PROTESTS PLANNED
Some also posted about access to churches being blocked in certain neighbourhoods of Kinshasa ahead of the demonstration... READ MORE›
CONGO REPORTS ARREST IN KILLING OF 2 U.N. EXPERTS
As many as 5,000 people have died in the fighting that has followed, and the United Nations has identified mass graves scattered across the province... READ MORE›
DRC PRESIDENT KABILA'S PROPERTY BURNT BY ASSAILANTS, POLICE KILLED
A home belonging to Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has been attacked and a policeman died in the incident, local lawmakers and U.N... READ MORE›
COURT ORDERS STRONGMAN TO COMPENSATE TO CHILD SOLDIERS
A strongman has been ordered to pay 10m in compensation to child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo... READ MORE›
COURT ORDERS STRONGMAN TO COMPENSATE TO CHILD SOLDIERS
A strongman has been ordered to pay 10m in compensation to child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo... READ MORE›
COURT ORDERS STRONGMAN TO COMPENSATE TO CHILD SOLDIERS
A strongman has been ordered to pay 10m in compensation to child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo... READ MORE›
COURT ORDERS STRONGMAN TO COMPENSATE TO CHILD SOLDIERS
A strongman has been ordered to pay 10m in compensation to child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo... READ MORE›
400,000 CHILDREN SEEN FACING STARVATION IN WAR-RAVAGED CONGO AS AID DRIES UP
Donors have only provided a fraction of the sum required, Oxfam said, adding that its project may have to close in March... READ MORE›
'I CLIMBED OVER BODIES TO FLEE'
The blood is speaking, said Papa Isaac, a local translator with the UN in Tshimbulu town in the central Kasai region... READ MORE›
CONGO COURT SENTENCES 12 TO LIFE FOR GANG-RAPING CHILDREN
The court awarded 5,000 to each victim of sexual violence and 15,000 to the families of those killed for criticizing the militia's actions... READ MORE›
BODIES OF 14 U.N. PEACEKEEPERS KILLED BY SUSPECTED UGANDAN REBELS FLOWN TO TANZANIA
The bodies of 14 Tanzanian peacekeepers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo by suspected Ugandan rebels were repatriated Monday, where the defense m... READ MORE›
ISLAMIST ATTACK KILLS AT LEAST 15 UN PEACEKEEPERS AND FIVE SOLDIERS IN DRC
Antonio Guterres, UN secretary general, described the attack by an Islamist extremist group as a 'war crime'... READ MORE›
WORST ATTACK ON U.N. IN RECENT HISTORY KILLS 15 PEACEKEEPERS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Human Rights Watch has documented more than 500 civilian deaths, at least 1,087 people kidnapped, and 11 reports of mass rape in North Kivu alone since June... READ MORE›
UN PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN DR CONGO
The head of Monusco, Maman Sidikou, said I condemn in the strongest terms this deadly attack on United Nations peacekeepers and the FARDC... READ MORE›
MILITIAS POACHERS WREAK HAVOC ON CENTRAL AFRICAS WILDLIFE MONITOR
The report also tracked poaching in Bili in DRC and the Chinko reserve in Central African Republic... READ MORE›
DR CONGO DISPLACEMENT CRISIS 'WORSE THAN MIDDLE EAST'
The scale of people fleeing violence is off the charts, outpacing Syria, Yemen and Iraq, the Norwegian Refugee Council's DR Congo director, Ulrika Blom, said... READ MORE›
DRC RECRUITED M23 TO CRUSH ANTI-KABILA PROTESTS
Rights group says DR Congo drafted ex-M23 fighters last year to crush protests against President Joseph Kabila... READ MORE›
MILITANTS KILL EGYPTIAN U.N. PEACEKEEPER IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Peacekeeper and wounded three others in an attack in southern Central African Republic on Sunday, the United Nations said in a statement... READ MORE›
AFTER MUGABE AFRICAN LEADERS WONDER WHAT NEXT
Franck Essi, secretary-general of the opposition Cameroon Peoples' Party, said opposition movements were closely watching events in Zimbabwe... READ MORE›
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SIERRA LEONE: DEATH TOLL FROM LANDSLIDE NEARS 500
READ MORE Sierra Leone mudslide What, where and why?... READ MORE›
EIGHT RANGERS KILLED IN GRIM WEEK FOR WILDLIFE PROTECTORS
Three rangers also died last week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when their speed boat capsized in Virunga national park... READ MORE›
FIVE PARK RANGERS KILLED IN DRC IN TRAGIC WEEKEND FOR WILDLIFE DEFENDERS
Mai Mai Simba describes itself as a self-defence rebel group that operates in the Okapi area... READ MORE›
FOR 2 EXPERTS KILLED IN CONGO, U.N. PROVIDED LITTLE TRAINING AND NO PROTECTION
She once confided to a friend about the ad hoc nature of her United Nations assignment... READ MORE›
'COURAGEOUS BUT NOT RECKLESS': THE TRAGEDY OF AN AMERICAN U.N. WORKER SLAIN IN CONGO
Congo, formally known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a massive country roughly the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River... READ MORE›
WHO DECLARES OUTBREAK IN DR CONGO
The World Health Organization WHO has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo... READ MORE›
PLANE CRASH THAT KILLED UN BOSS 'MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY AIRCRAFT ATTACK'
Among Othman's new findings are In February 1961, the French secretly supplied three Fouga warplanes to the Katanga rebels, against the objections of the US government ... READ MORE›
TRUMP ORDER ON CONFLICT MINERALS WOULD SEND WARLORDS CARTE BLANCHE SIGNAL, SAY CRITICS
Dozens of human rights, social and religious groups in the Congo and neighbouring countries are pleading with the Trump administration to keep the regulation in place... READ MORE›
KENYA OPENS NAIROBI-MOMBASA MADARAKA EXPRESS RAILWAY
Kenya has opened a major new railway between the port city of Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi, 18 months early... READ MORE›
EBOLA OUTBREAK DECLARED IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO AFTER THREE DIE
Thousands more survivors have been left with long-term health problems and Liberia was only declared free of active Ebola virus transmission last June... READ MORE›
THREE WILDLIFE RANGERS KILLED IN ATTACK BY VIOLENT MILITIA IN DRC
Wildlife rangers at Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were killed in an ambush by Mai Mai rebels... READ MORE›
DR CONGO CHILDREN FIND REFUGE IN ZAMBIA
Out of the 3,360 refugees who have fled into northern Zambia since August 30, at least 60 percent are children, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR ... READ MORE›
EBOLA OUTBREAK DECLARED IN NORTHEAST DR CONGO
In June 2016, WHO declared Liberia free of active Ebola virus transmission... READ MORE›
WORLD POPULATION TO HIT 8BN IN 2023, SAYS NEW UN SURVEY
By contrast, all European countries now languish with fertility rates below replacement level, meaning that populations will inexorably decline without large-scale immigration... READ MORE›
REVEALED: HOW BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO EXPLOITED WAR ZONES TO SELL CIGARETTES
As cigarette sales decline around the world, British American Tobacco sees fragile states as one of the few remaining growth markets for its deadly products... READ MORE›
MASSACRES AND MUTILATIONS IN CONGO HAVE LEFT MORE THAN 3,000 DEAD SINCE OCTOBER, REPORTS SAY
The European Union and United States slapped sanctions on an array of top Congolese government and army officials -- seemingly almost everyone but Kabila himself... READ MORE›
DR CONGO VIOLENCE DRIVES THOUSANDS INTO ZAMBIA
A full 60 percent of those arriving in Zambia are children, including many showing signs of malnutrition, the UNHCR said... READ MORE›
DR CONGO FORCES KILL AT LEAST 18 BURUNDI REFUGEES
Congolese security forces have killed at least 18 Burundian refugees during clashes over plans to send some of them home... READ MORE›
KAMWINA NSAPU MILITIA KILL 40 POLICEMEN IN DR CONGO
The rebel fighters has been fighting DRC forces since August 2016, when security forces killed their leader... READ MORE›
DR CONGO LANDSLIDE DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO 200
In May 2010, a mudslide swept over the eastern Congo village of Kibiriga and killed 19 people... READ MORE›
DR CONGO VIOLENCE DISPLACES 3.8 MILLION: UN
The report was based on interviews from 96 refugees who had fled they country's Kasai provinces into neighbouring Angola... READ MORE›
UN PROPOSES STEPS TO CURB SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS
Guterres also called for appointing a special human rights expert who would report directly to the UN chief to be a victims' rights advocate... READ MORE›
CAR TOPS LIST OF 'WORLD'S MOST NEGLECTED' CRISES
The conflict in the Central African Republic CAR is the world's most neglected displacement crisis, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council... READ MORE›
IM A CIVILIAN IM INNOCENT WHOS IN CONGOS MASS GRAVES
Many of them are backed by government forces as they try to quash the Kamwina Nsapu militia... READ MORE›
'IT IS HEART-BREAKING TO SEE 3.2. MILLION PEOPLE SEVERELY FOOD INSECURE,' SAYS UN FOOD CHIEF
Officials say the number of people displaced by conflict has nearly doubled in the past six months to 1.5 million... READ MORE›
ICC SET FOR FIRST MONETARY AWARDS TO WAR CRIME VICTIMS
It was the first case to see some kind of ICC compensation awarded, but a final decision on collective reparations for Lubanga's victims is still awaited... READ MORE›
DRC: VAST BUSINESS NETWORK OF PRESIDENT WHO WON'T STEP DOWN REVEALED
It describes how the Kabila family, which spent the Mobutu years in exile in Dar es Salaam, living in relative poverty, amassed great wealth... READ MORE›
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FACE ACUTE HUNGER IN DRC
One in 10 people living in rural areas suffers from acute hunger, while chronic malnutrition affects 43 per cent of children under five years, the FAO report said... READ MORE›
'WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MALE RAPE'
But for male rape survivors like Stephen, life there can be tough... READ MORE›
ORDERED TO CATCH A WARLORD UGANDAN TROOPS ARE ACCUSED OF HUNTING GIRLS
Joseph Kony is dead, announced American-made leaflets dropped from a helicopter in the Central African Republic in recent weeks... READ MORE›