The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the strife-torn DRC by five months.
A lawmaker from the north-eastern DRC on Friday expressed fears of an attack by Ugandan rebels at Christmas.
The European Union on Wednesday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo’s rulers to end violence against civilians in the country.
A Human Rights Watch report accusing the DRC soldiers of attacking civilians is ”an attempt to distort the truth”, a minister said on Tuesday.
French coach Diego Garzitto has raised the bar to a dizzy height for DRC club Tout Puissant Mazembe ahead of their Fifa Club World Cup debut.
The UN Security Council faces a major headache in the DRC, where it must extend but perhaps also rethink the mandate of a UN peacekeeping force.
More than 92 000 people have fled sectarian violence in the north-west of the DRC, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says.
Lawyers for Laurent Nkunda, a former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have filed a complaint about his ”illegal detention” in Rwanda.
More than 44 000 people have fled ethnic violence in the western DRC to seek refuge in the Republic of Congo, aid workers said on Monday.
At least 73 people died when two linked barges sank in a lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
An armed movement calling itself the Patriots-Resistance of Dongo on Friday claimed responsibility for firing at a UN helicopter in the DRC.
Military operations have failed to contain Rwandan-Hutu rebels in the DRC and action is needed to restrict their financing, says a report by the UN.
The world’s first permanent war crimes court opens its second trial on Tuesday when two Congolese warlords face charges.
Authorities in the DRC have approached the UN about scaling down the large UN mission in the country, a government spokesperson said.
At least 100 people have been killed in inter-ethnic clashes in north-western DRC that caused 25 000 civilians to flee, the UN said on Wednesday.
The UN Security Council expressed ”deep concern” on Monday about the humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC.
A top human rights group is accusing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) military of killing more than 500 civilians in eastern DRC.
The UN will suspend operational support for certain DRC army units it believes have deliberately killed more than 60 civilians this year.
Armed villagers killed at least 47 policemen trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in northern DRC, UN-sponsored radio reported on Friday.
South Africa is committed to helping the DRC reconstruct and develop, International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Thursday.
