Tag Archives: DRC

Deaths in DRC detention centers doubled in 2012, says UN report

March 13, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 13, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – A UN research into the human rights situation in detention centers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows that the...

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Violence against civilians in Masisi...

March 7, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – After several days of heavy fighting in Kitchanga, in the Masisi territory of North Kivu, the situation of the civilian p...

Christian Aid urges UK government to continue backing UN peace and sec...

February 19, 2013 no comments

Christian Aid is urging the UK Government to further support the signing and implementation of the United Nations recently proposed DRC and Great Lakes peace and security deal, which was inexplicably...

The U.S. response to the continued crisis in the Democratic Republic o...

December 14, 2012 2 comments

WASHINGTON, Carey L. Biron (IPS) - President Barack Obama’s top diplomat on African affairs on Tuesday defended the U.S. administration’s response to the continued crisis in the Democratic Republic o...

Deadly Ebola outbreak hits DRC claiming one

August 19, 2012 no comments

News trickling in from credible sources in the Democratic Republic of Congo reveals that at least one person has succumbed to the recent Ebola outbreak that has been reported in the north-east town o...

Great Lakes Summit kicks off in Uganda

August 7, 2012 no comments

Uganda plays host for the Great Lakes Region Heads of State and Government Summit which kicked off early today in Kampala. The meeting is meant to shift focus on the conflicts that have undermined co...

The disabled are left to fend for themselves in the Democratic Republi...

March 11, 2012 1 comment

KIKWIT, DR Congo, (IPS) – The outlook for people living with disabilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains bleak, despite a variety of efforts to improve their lot and bring them in from t...

Shooting in Kinshasa as election results reveal Joseph Kabila wins pre...

December 11, 2011 no comments

KINSHASA (IPS) – Fears of violent demonstrations against the provisional results of the presidential elections – released on Dec. 9 by the electoral commission – have given way to terror in Kinshasa,...

Five people have been killed as elections in the Democratic Republic o...

November 28, 2011 1 comment

DOHA – Nov 28 (IPS) – Five people have been killed in two separate clashes on election day in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country’s interior minister has ...

There is no hope for free and fair elections in the Democratic Republi...

October 22, 2011 1 comment

JOHANNESBURG (IPS) – With six weeks to go before the presidential and parliamentary elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, civil society organisations say the elections will not be fair, as m...

There is no water, no management, and no power in the Democratic Repub...

September 22, 2011 no comments

KINSHASA, Sep 21 (IPS) – Frequent power cuts have led to the firing of the board of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national electricity company. But it is not clear if sub-par generation fr...

DRC parliament adopts bill to create specialised court for serious vio...

September 14, 2011 no comments

KINSHASA, (IPS) – The Democratic Republic of Congo’s parliament this month adopted a bill creating a Specialised Court for serious violations of human rights. The involvement of jurists from ou...

Kinshasha hit by water shortages

August 30, 2011 no comments

KINSHASA (IPS) - In recent months, no one in the Congolese capital has been spared the effects of water shortages. Where spending entire days criss-crossing Kinshasa in search of water with battered ...

Jean-Pierre Bemba chosen as Movement for the Liberation of Congo presi...

July 24, 2011 no comments

The main opposition party in Congo says it has chosen former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba as its presidential candidate for November elections. Bemba, 48, faces charges of murder, rape and pillag...

Prisoners escape from Jail in the Democratic Republic of Congo

November 19, 2010 no comments

In the remote north-west part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, nearly 200 prisoners have been reported to have escaped from a jail. The break-out happened on Tuesday as a hearing was taking place...

ICC halts Thomas Lubanga’s trial at the Hague

July 9, 2010 no comments

An immediate halt has been placed on the trial of accused Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, saying the Office of the Prosecutor refused to turn over information to his defence. The ICC said in a stat...