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Angola's President João Lourenço makes new push for peace in eastern DRC

FILE - Congolese Defense Forces soldiers and United Nation forces patrol the area of an attack near the town of Oicha, 30 kms ...
Crux

Catholic leader highlights desperation as eastern DRC war intensifies

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – As the situation gets worse in the DR Congo, the Director of Communication at Caritas Butembo-Beni has decried the desperation that has enveloped the people of eastern Congo ...
Naija Gist - Latest

Ebola, violence-weary DRC region proudly stages unofficial vote

Thousands of voters, weary from frequent armed attacks and an ongoing Ebola outbreak, proudly cast ballots in a northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo -- even though they will count ...
Yahoo

Is ISIL a growing threat in the DR Congo and East Africa?

In the early hours of Sunday, July 27, armed fighters attacked a Catholic church in the Komanda region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where about a hundred people had gathered for a ...
Naija Gist - Latest

DR Congo police fire live rounds to break up Beni protests

Police and soldiers fired live ammunition on Friday to disperse demonstrators in the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an AFP correspondent said. The demonstrators were protesting ...
UNHCR

As violence spikes in DRC, UNHCR concerned for trapped civilians

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its humanitarian partners remain extremely concerned for the safety and security of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ...
Crux

Congo priest wants ‘fair justice’ for human rights violations over ‘blood minerals’

An Aug. 17, 2012 file photo shows a Congolese man digging for cassiterite, the primary ore of tin, at a mine in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (Credit: Marc Hofer/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, ...