Scores dead after DR Congo shipwreck
At least 50 people have drowned and 35 are missing after a boat accident on a river in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At least 50 people have drowned and 35 are missing after a boat accident on a river in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Angolan security forces are waging a campaign of terror — including sexual abuse — on Congolese migrants who cross the border illegally.
Three soldiers and a policeman have been arrested for stealing from the bodies of passengers who died in a plane crash in the DRC this month.
A plane carrying 112 passengers has crashed on its way from Kinshasa to Kisangani, leaving dozens dead and 53 survivors injured, a DRC airline says.
Government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo raped at least 121 women over a three-day period, the United Nations said on Friday.
Strong leadership is needed to harness Africa’s economic growth to benefit its people, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
Investigators have recovered the flight order of a UN plane that crashed near Kinshasa in the DRC on Monday, leaving 32 people dead.
Thirty-two people including UN officials and peacekeepers were killed on Monday when a plane crashed on landing in heavy rain in the DRC capital.
At least 20 UN workers were killed when their plane crashed on Monday while trying to land in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital Kinshasa.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has freed two Americans, a Frenchman and two Nigerians accused of gold smuggling.
SA is talking to the DRC to revive a stalled hydropower project on the Congo River, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday.
The tip-off led intelligence agents to an US jet loaded with half a tonne of gold, a Houston diamond merchant and a car chase that produced $6,8m.
A DRC court has sentenced a colonel to 20 years in the highest-profile rape case ever held in the massive state where sexual violence is endemic.
South Africa has concluded a deal to farm 172 000 hectares of land in the Republic of Congo but has stalled similar talks with North African states
A South African working for a British oil company has been released unharmed after he was kidnapped in the volatile eastern DRC.
The government is trying to verify whether the person kidnapped while working for a British oil company in the DRC is a South African.
Confirmation by DRC President Joseph Kabila has embroiled Khulubuse Zuma in a legal dispute with a leading oil company in Africa.
Systematic sexual violence continues to be carried out against Congolese women and girls caught up in expulsions from Angola to the DRC, the UN said.
The UN Security Council on Monday raised new concerns over rapes and other attacks on women and children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fifty years on, we have yet to discover the extent of colonialism’s legacy on the continent.
(DRC government troops have been blamed for abuses, including rapes and looting, in of Sud-Kivu to avenge the death of one of their colleagues.
More than 30 women were raped in a coordinated attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo on New Year’s Day.
He has been shamed by the UN, accused of murder, rape and abusing child soldiers in the DRC, but nothing it seems can stop Innocent Zimurinda.
Look no further than Nigeria, the DRC, Algeria, Sudan and our own backyard to get a glimpse of what’s to come. <b>Adekeye Adebajo</b> reports
Prosecutors said two senior Rwandan Hutu rebel leaders have been indicted for allegedly masterminding from Germany atrocities in the DRC.
An alliance of 19 international aid organisations on Tuesday called for more to be done to prevent another Christmas massacre by rebels from the LRA.
WikiLeaks has released a secret diplomatic United States embassy cable listing two SA companies seen as critical to American interests.
Rescuers say an SA man leading two Americans on a whitewater expedition in Central Africa was attacked by a crocodile and pulled from his kayak.
As the trial of the Congolese rebel leader gets under way, political analysts will go into overdrive about what the case means for the DRC.
An United Nations Security Council committee blacklisted a commander in the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for ordering massacres.
Former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba of the DRC goes on trial on Monday for rapes and murders allegedly committed by his troops.
Three African leaders and their families are to be investigated in Paris for allegedly embezzling state funds to acquire vast assets in France.