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Officials: ‘Drunk’ Congo soldiers run amok killing 15

April 19, 2022

President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni (R) and Alain Goetz, CEO of AGR Limited (C) are shown gold flakes at the African Gold Refinery (AGR ltd) in Entebbe. Gael Grilhot, AFP

US sanctions powerful Belgian gold dealer for funding DRC insurgency

March 18, 2022

There has been a sharp increase in tribally motivated violence targeting internally displaced people (IDPs) in refugee camps in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

DRC: 62 dead, 38 injured in latest militia attack on refugee camp

February 15, 2022

Gunmen in the early hours of Friday stormed Birshin Fulani, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, and kidnapped a nursing mother of three children, Mrs Rukayyat Odedoyin.

Gunmen kidnap 5 Chinese mine workers in DR Congo

November 21, 2021

Villagers searched for bodies in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Lake Kivu on Friday after a passenger boat capsized the day before, leaving dozens feared dead.

Villagers search for bodies after shipwreck on Congo’s Lake Kivu

November 13, 2021

At least two people were killed and a number of others were wounded when a grenade exploded in a bar in Burundi's capital Gitega on Sunday evening, a police source said.

Two people killed, several injured in grenade attack on bar in Burundi capital – security sources

September 20, 2021

A rebel group has claimed a series of mortar attacks launched overnight on the airport of Bujumbura, Burundi's economic capital, a day before President Evariste Ndayishimiye was due to fly out for the UN General Assembly in New York.

Burundi rebel group claims airport attack

September 19, 2021

Congolese rape survivors are seen before attending a dance session at a rehabilitation centre attached to the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo April 19, 2021. REUTERS-Djaffar Al Katanty

Dance helps Congo’s rape survivors cope with trauma

June 14, 2021

A girl gets inoculated with an Ebola vaccine in Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pamela Tulizo/AFP via Getty Images

DR Congo starts countdown to end of Ebola outbreak in east

March 23, 2021

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Suspected Islamists kill 10 people with knives, machetes in Congo

February 16, 2021

Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka was convicted of murder, rape, sexual slavery and enlisting children under 15 years old, a military court ruled at the end of a trial that lasted two years.

DR Congo ex-warlord gets life term for war crimes

November 23, 2020

At least 21 people have been killed in a massacre suspected to have been committed by militants from the Islamist ADF group in conflict-wracked northeast DR Congo, a local official said Saturday.

21 dead in new DR Congo massacre by ADF militia

October 31, 2020

Congolese miners work at an artisanal gold mine near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, May 22, 2019. REUTERS-Djaffar Al Katanty

Congo gold miners scour rubble for bodies after cave-in

September 12, 2020

Jihadists have made $140 million from attacks on gold mines in Burkina Faso since 2016, according to a report commissioned by the government.

About 50 feared dead in DR Congo mine collapse

September 12, 2020

A plane carrying four passengers crashed late on Thursday in dense forest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said.

Plane carrying four passengers crashes in DR Congo

August 14, 2020