KIGALI, 25 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Rwandan Hutu rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have until 30 September to disarm or else face "severe" consequences, ministers of regional ...

NAIROBI, 22 Aug 2006 (IRIN) - Fighting in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, may have broken out because the results of the 30 July election, announced on Sunday, took supporters ...

KINSHASA/GOMA, 26 May 2005 (IRIN) - A Soviet-era aircraft carrying 21 passengers and five crew crashed on Wednesday in a remote forest in the territory of Walungu, in Democratic Republic of Congo's ...

KINSHASA, 14 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - Seven soldiers in the Congolese army have been sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity, including the mass rape of at least 119 women in the northwestern ...

NAIROBI, 20 May 2005 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has named a five-member panel of experts to monitor an arms embargo the UN has imposed against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ...

KINSHASA, 17 May 2005 (IRIN) - At a ceremony held on Monday to present the Democratic Republic of Congo's newly adopted draft constitution, President Joseph Kabila urged all Congolese to rally in ...

Conflict minerals have frequently been considered one of the leading causes of armed violence in eastern DRC (file photo) Major industries are seeking to alter the proposed US reporting rules on ...

KINSHASA, 22 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Parliament has adopted a bill giving the Independent Electoral Commission 110 days to organise national democratic elections as soon as Congo's President Joseph Kabila ...

Congo Planète salue la mémoire de Madilu Système, l'un des grands de la musique Congolaise. Le Congo vient de perdre un artiste d'un talent inégalé qui durant son parcours musical a gagné le respect ...

JOHANNESBURG, 17 Mar 2005 (IRIN) - The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has said it will not "tolerate any behaviour" by its members that undermined its "good image and international ...

KINSHASA, 23 Jun 2005 (IRIN) - Although 15,000 former militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern district of Ituri have been disarmed, the UN mission in the country, known as MONUC, ...

KINSHASA, 11 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - The retraining of 20 Congolese civilian and military prison personnel began on Wednesday in the southwestern French town of Agen, as part of the Democratic Republic of ...