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DRC election body to strive for free, fair polls despite attack on building
President Joseph Kabila’s opponents accused him of the arson in a bid to delay the poll that’s already two years late.
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UN alarmed by electoral violence and inflammatory speech in Congo
The DR Congo is due to hold long-delayed presidential elections on 23 December.
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9 slain in massacre in troubled eastern DR Congo
The massacre occurred in the town of Oicha, in the Beni region, local administrator Donat Kibwana told AFP.
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Nobel Peace prize laureate Mukwege worried Congo vote could lead to war
Mukwege will jointly receive the 2018 prize in Oslo for his work as a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu.
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EU renews Congo sanctions ahead of presidential election
The decision is likely to worsen relations between the EU and President Joseph Kabila’s government, which has lobbied against sanctions it calls an illegal violation of its sovereignty.
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17 civilians killed in DR Congo attacks
The attacks came a day after opposition candidate Martin Fayulu visited Beni to launch his campaign ahead of December’s high-stakes presidential election.
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Nobel Peace Prize to honour champions of struggle against sexual violence
Murad and Mukwege will be jointly presented with the prize in Oslo after they were announced as winners by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in October.
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11 SANDF peacekeepers convicted of abusing boy in DRC
The men, who were convicted of common law assault by a military court, dragged the 17-year-old into their base in southern Kasai province after he was caught allegedly stealing buckets in January, the military said Monday.
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Army clashes with rebels kill 15 in eastern DRC
The army says the fighting was continuing Monday in Fizi, a region of South Kivu, a mineral-rich province which is prone to ethnic tensions.
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Ranger, 2 civilians killed in DRC national park
The violence erupted during a dispute over building permits outside an ICCN office in Vitshumbi, a village in the heart of the park on the shores of Lake Edward.
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In eastern DRC, 19 die of Ebola in five days
The outbreak, which began on 1 August, has now killed 241 people, the ministry said in a statement.
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Kinshasa rejects US 'terrorist threat' warning
The conflict-prone central African country heads to the polls on 23 December to elect a successor to longtime President Joseph Kabila as well as lawmakers.
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Congo approves clinical trials for Ebola treatments
Health workers have already administered therapeutic treatments to more than 150 Ebola patients since August.
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Congo authorities eye victory as candidates launch election campaigns
President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled since 2001, is backing his former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary in the presidential race.
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Congo confirms near record number of new Ebola cases on Wednesday
Attacks by armed groups have hampered international efforts to control the outbreak, the worst in Congo’s history, which has infected over 380 people and killed two-thirds of them.
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Congo spy agency informant, army colonel deny role in UN experts' killing
Congo’s government has blamed the militia from the start and has arrested two dozen individuals. But it said last December it could not exclude the possibility that state agents were involved.
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Operations combating Ebola in DRC suspended after WHO workers attacked
This follows the shelling of a house accommodating World Health Organisation workers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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DR Congo Ebola response efforts resume in Beni after clashes: WHO
DR Congo's health ministry had announced a suspension of operations in Beni after deadly clashes erupted Friday just a 'few metres' from a local emergency centre and the hotels of several response teams.
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Mortar bombs fired at UN peacekeeping base in eastern Congo
The attack follows the death of twelve Congolese soldiers and seven UN peacekeepers in clashes with militias earlier this week.
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Seven peacekeepers killed in clashes near Ebola-hit part of east Congo
The peacekeepers, from Malawi and one from Tanzania, were killed on Thursday.
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Death toll from DRC cholera outbreak at 857
Health authorities have so far recorded 25,170 cases, occurring in 21 out of the country's 26 provinces, the WHO's office in the DRC said.
