By Catherine Ageno The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region, has appealed to the international community for increased support in resolving the escalating hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the mounting tension in the wider Great Lakes region. Speaking before the Security Council, on Tuesday, Huang […]
By AFP Armed men in eastern DR Congo have killed two Chinese nationals and two soldiers, a local official said Tuesday, in the latest violence to hit the turbulent region. The attack occurred on Saturday night at a Chinese-operated gold mine in the village of Misisi, in eastern South Kivu […]
By AFP DR Congo’s Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynaecologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize, announced a presidential bid Monday ahead of elections in the central African nation planned for December. Speaking to a packed auditorium in the capital Kinshasa, the 68-year-old told supporters he was standing in order to […]
A suspected ADF collaborator in Rubirizi district has handed himself over to the joint security agencies of the Police and Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF). The said collaborator, who reportedly crossed from DR Congo has been identified as William Byaruhanga,30, and was previously a resident of Busunga trading center in […]
By AFP At least 48 people have been killed in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in eastern DR Congo, according to sources and official documentation reviewed by AFP on Thursday, raising a previously reported death toll. On Wednesday, Congolese soldiers stopped a religious sect from holding a demonstration against […]
