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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (), commonly referred to as DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa or the DRC, is a country located in Central Africa.
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A Congolese general says the army has killed 80 rebels from neighboring Rwanda and Uganda who crossed into volatile eastern Congo.
Gen. Amuli Bahigwa said Tuesday the army killed the rebels in an operation that started June 1. He said four soldiers were killed and that Ugandan rebels killed eight civilians.Eastern Congo has been wracked by violence since Rwanda's 1994 genocide spilled war across the border. Ugandan rebels have spread their 20-year fight to Congo, Sudan and Central African Republic .Wednesday is Congo's 50th anniversary of independence from Belgium . The vast Central African nation has struggled to develop despite great mineral wealth. Congo is the size of Western Europe but has few paved roads and is covered by near-impenetrable forest where fighters take refuge....KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A Congolese military judge says he has thrown out a ruling that sentenced two Norwegians to death on espionage and murder charges and ordered ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's national security official says the head of police has been suspended to allow a deeper investigation into the death last week of a le...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Several arrests have been made in connection to the killing this week of a leading Congolese human rights activist, a police commander in the ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The United Nations ' head of Congo peacekeeping operations says two U.N. personnel have been killed during fighting between the Congolese mili...
KINSHASA, Congo -- A Congolese army official says Ugandan militiamen launched an overnight attack on a military base in eastern Congo in an attempt to free detained ...
A Congolese general who recently defected from the army and is believed to be behind the country's most recent rebellion is apparently bankrolling the operation with...
The African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released Wednesday shows that it's even worse than previously thought...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A government official says that Congo's president is heading to the site of the massive tanker blast in eastern Congo that killed at least 242...
SANGE, Congo -- A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed at least 220 bys...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When police hauled Floribert Chebeya Bahizire in for questioning in March, they made him get down on the floor and held a gun to his head durin...
Spotlighting electronics-driven violence in Congo
Top international prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, best known for pursuing war criminals, has been nominated as chief investigator at FIFA, soccer's scandal-plagued go...
A group of Congolese soldiers who created a rebel group after defecting from the army have no intention of laying down their weapons despite an ultimatum from the go...
Fighting resumed Friday in eastern Congo between the army and a group of ex-soldiers who left the military to form a new rebel group, an army spokesman said, ending ...
A close aide to Hillary Clinton dismissed as "psychobabble" the fuss over the secretary of state's barbed response to a questioner asking for her famous husband's op...
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another...
A former Congolese warlord accused of conscripting child soldiers walks freely and is serving in the Congolese military despite a warrant for his arrest, an internat...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A leading Congolese human rights activist killed this week had suffered a pattern of intimidation because of his work, a senior U.N. official ...
Nearly 5,000 people, mostly women, children and the elderly, have been displaced because of fighting in Congo's North Kivu province, the United Nations refugee agenc...
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