KINSHASA, 18 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Congolese President Joseph Kabila, who faces Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba in a second-round presidential poll, has agreed to include one of the sons of late ...

KINSHASA, 13 Jun 2006 (IRIN) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is preparing to hold its first democratic elections in 45 years on 30 July, but the main political opposition party is not ...

KINSHASA, 21 February 2008 (IRIN) - The acquittal by a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of a militia leader convicted of war crimes has drawn criticism, with human rights activists ...

Big business... But little of the hundreds of millions of dollars generated annually by DRC's mineral sector ends up in state coffers (file photo) KINSHASA, 17 March 2011 (IRIN) - Various stakeholders ...

BUNIA, 2 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - Close to 15,000 voters in Fataki, an area in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, began voting on Thursday in presidential elections after a four-day delay caused by ...

KINSHASA, 29 Mar 2006 (IRIN) - At least 1,000 residents of two villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern district of Ituri sought refuge on Wednesday around a camp of Bangladeshi UN ...

KINSHASA, 22 Mar 2006 (IRIN) - Thousands of party supporters of veteran opposition politician Etienne Tshisekedi marched through the streets of the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, on Wednesday demanding ...

NAIROBI, 23 May 2005 (IRIN) - Some 1,600 internally displaced people (IDPs) began their journey home on Thursday along the mighty River Congo, from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of ...

KINSHASA, 21 Jun 2005 (IRIN) - Despite prevailing insecurity in the east and northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the postponement of presidential elections, the Independent ...

NAIROBI, 3 September 2007 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency has expressed concern over the plight of thousands of civilians forced to flee worsening tension and fighting in North Kivu province of the ...

President Joseph Kabila and his rival, Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba, have promised that voting would be calm. KINSHASA, 24 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - As presidential rivals Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre ...

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