Congo News

Kinshasa - The Democratic Republic of Congo is to launch on Tuesday a "firearm for $50" disarmament campaign in the vast country's volatile eastern region, a minister said on Monday.

ANSONIA, Conn. - Many high school seniors are enjoying a good case of 'senioritis' about now - the polite term for slacking off during the second semester of 12th grade, while they wait for college to begin.

The Congo Leadership Initiative , a new nonprofit that works with youth in Kinshasa, Congo, is partnering with Quiznos Ithaca.

The UN has begun talks with the Democratic Republic of the Congo about ending its controversial peacekeeping mission in the country.

The U.N. could start withdrawing troops from war-ravaged Congo this year, but the head of the world body's peacekeeping division said the soldiers should remain in the east, which is still being terrorized by Rwandan and Ugandan militias.

Kinshasa - A Democratic Republic of Congo military court on Wednesday ordered the death sentence for the head of a rights group for trying to build a rebel movement.

Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 1:33 pm Press Release: United Nations New York, Mar 2 2010 5:10PM The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is training hundreds of police officers, including former members of armed groups, in human rights and public security in the country's volatile far east.

PARIS: MIPDOC, the international showcase for documentary screenings, has named the five producers to receive recognition at the International Trailblazer Awards at MIPDOC 2010, including the DRC's Djo Tunda Wa Munga.

Bishop Philibert Tembo Nlandu of Budjala has requested the support of the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of basic social needs, Nzanga Mobutu, for the return of displaced persons from Dongo, in the northwestern Equateur Province.

South Africa sent a report to the United Nations saying it confiscated a shipment of North Korean tank parts hidden among sacks of rice which were headed for the Republic of Congo in violation of U.N. sanctions.

An army of humanitarian organizations has been unable to end years of recurring hunger in conflict-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.

South Africa has told a U.N. Security Council committee it intercepted a North Korean weapons shipment bound for Central Africa, which diplomats said was a violation of a U.N. ban on arms sales by Pyongyang.

A United States attorney, who leads the prosecution against former Liberian president Charles Taylor, has been named by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new Prosecutor of the United Nations-backed tribunal trying the worst acts committed during the decade-long brutal civil war in Sierra Leone.

The stolen monies were part of some $50 mn. that Chinese companies were due to have paid to Congo's mining parastatal, Gcamines, the Commission Economique et Financire reported in late January.

KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has carried out a wideranging cabinet reshuffle, excluding former rebels, changing 20 posts and dropping a deputy minister at the centre of a mining review.

Emergency food supplies are running out for more than 100,000 refugees from a conflict in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local World Food Programme workers.

Gold miners form a human chain while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine in the Kilomoto concession near the village of Kobu, 100 km from Bunia in north-eastern Congo, in this February 23, 2009 file photo.

Despite efforts to end the use of child soldiers in the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , youngsters are still being recruited within the ranks of both the rebels and the national army, with girls at particular risk of becoming sex slaves and less likely to be released, the United Nations Children's Fund said.

The UN refugee agency in Congo-Brazzaville says it is expecting more displaced people to pour in from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Chances are pretty good that any of the electronic devices you use regularly - cell phone, iPod, digital camera, laptop or the like - contains minerals that came illicitly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the running battle over natural resources is fueling consumer lifestyles here, and massive slaughter there.