Full Coverage: Congo (Democratic Republic of)

29.04.2008 The Frontline Club is running a Congo season of films and talks, 6-15 May.

24.04.2008 The Democratic Republic of Congo and armed groups must enforce a January peace treaty meant to conclude 10 years of conflict, urged 63 local and international non-governmental organizations.
From: Human Rights Watch

23.04.2008 Climate change, the oil industry, and the construction of the world's largest dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo must be prioritized by African and U.S. leaders to support sustainable development on the continent, says a new report released on Earth Day.

23.04.2008 It's the usual story: big promises and grandiose plans for Africa - this time for the world's largest hydroelectric project. Then reality sets in: as discussions begin, the host country, Congo, isn't there.

23.04.2008 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks.

21.04.2008 Seven African governments and the world's largest banks and construction firms meet in London today to plan the most powerful dam ever conceived - an $80bn hydropower project on the Congo river which supporters say could double the amount of electricity available on the continent.

08.04.2008 Hundreds of Cogolese villagers - mostly hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers - will use high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) devices to produce digital maps to prove their existence to the government and to loggers.

19.03.2008 Women's rights advocates shed light on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- in some villages as many as 90 percent of women have been raped -- and explain how local women leaders are fighting back.

13.03.2008 In the Democratic Republic of Congo, "women and girls are victims of rape on a scale never seen before." This collection of photos shows survivors recovering and rebuilding their lives with the help of an international refugee agency.

10.03.2008 Indigenous rights activists have embarked on a three-month campaign to free enslaved indigenous people in the Democratic Republic of Congo by meeting with and educating -- as opposed to 'shaming and denouncing' -- slave owners.

05.03.2008 The world has largely turned its attention away from humanitarian crises in Somalia, Sri Lanka, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma, but the world body shouldn't, said a prominent human rights group this week.
From: Human Rights Watch

14.02.2008 A journalist invokes scenes from her recent visit to a rural hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo before delving into the grossly underreported disparities between the American "Health Care World of Plenty" and the DRC's "Health Care World of Want."

08.02.2008 The International Criminal Court has arrested Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, a high ranking member of a militia group that committed crimes against humanity in northeastern DRC and the third war crimes suspect from this country to be taken into custody in the Hague.
From: Human Rights Watch

05.02.2008 A powerful earthquake hit the border shared by Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo this Sunday, killing at least 33 people and injuring approximately 400.

05.02.2008 The announcement of the world's second largest internationally recognised and protected wetlands reserve in the Congo gets a thumbs-up from a leading environmental group "as a clear sign of the world’s increasing interest in the green heart of Africa."

26.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1,000 people continue to die every day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of armed conflict fueled predominantly by the world's thirst for gold and diamonds.

25.01.2008 Peace may finally come to the war-weary Democratic Republic of Congo as the government recently reached an agreement with the armed rebels to halt violence after extensive negotiations in the Kivu regions, says the UN.

22.01.2008 As women suffer the horrific consequences of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one Congolese and one American women are helping to stem the violence and support its victims.

22.01.2008 Conflict and its effects have killed an estimated 5.4 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998 and continue to kill up to 45,000 a month - the deadliest conflict since the Second World War, according to a major survey released today.

09.01.2008 Marred by President Joseph Kabila's absence, as well as ongoing violence and alleged government links with the armed rebels in the Kivus, the Congo peace conference is off to a bad start, reports a regional news source.
From: The New Times (Kigali)