Life without cash in captured DRC city
Goma – Cash has become so scarce in Goma, the eastern Congolese city seized by anti-government fighters in January, that... Read more
21 May
Red Cross escorts more than 1,300 DRC soldiers out of rebel city
Goma – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Thursday it had evacuated more than 1,300 DRC soldiers... Read more
16 May
UN peacekeeper killed in DRC road crash
Goma – A Moroccan soldier in the UN peacekeeping force and his interpreter were killed in a road accident... Read more
15 May
Kinshasa deploys excavators against illegally built homes
Kinshasa – A mother watched in despair as an excavator demolished her Kinshasa home, part of a campaign to clamp... Read more
15 May
African worshippers hope Pope Leo carries on Francis’s work
Abuja – Worshippers in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to Africa’s biggest Catholic populations, on Friday... Read more
9 May
SA exit from DRC to be completed this month – general
Johannesburg – South African troops withdrawing from the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have begun assembling... Read more
5 May
Southern African troops begin exit from DRC after deadly M23 onslaught
Johannesburg – Southern African troops have started evacuating the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been stranded... Read more
30 Apr
Fighting flares in east DRC despite Rwanda truce push
Bukavu – Fierce fighting between the Congolese army and the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has flared up again in... Read more
29 Apr
DRC authorities suspend party of ex-president Kabila
Kinshasa – The Democratic Republic of Congo government said it had suspended the political party of former president Joseph Kabila,... Read more
22 Apr
DRC Catholics say they have lost ‘the voice of the voiceless’
Kinshasa – Church bells tolled across the capital of Africa’s most populous Roman Catholic nation on Monday after the death... Read more
22 Apr
