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International companies are fueling the conflict in eastern Congo by not checking the origins of the minerals they buy, a human rights group said.
Scientists found evidence of intense volcanic activity — including tremors, pools of lava and plumes of smoke — at two volcanoes near a major city in eastern Congo, and said some residents had fled for fear of an eruption.
More than 40 members of a Hutu militia suspected of atrocities during Rwanda's 1994 genocide were killed in an overnight air raid, a Congolese military spokesman said Friday.
An Ebola virus outbreak in a remote province of Congo that left 15 people dead has stabilized with no new reported cases in the last two weeks, the World Health Organization said Monday.
Congo's president said Saturday that troops from former enemies Rwanda and Uganda, who are carrying out joint operations against armed militias in the east, must leave this Central African nation by the end of February.
Congo's most powerful rebel leader, captured last week by the Rwandan army as it switched alliances, is not in prison but is in a "safe" place in Rwanda, an army spokesman said Monday.
Congo's invitation to its longtime enemy Rwanda to deploy up to 2,000 troops marked an extraordinary reversal of alliances, but the Congolese government said Wednesday the Rwandan forces were there only to observe, not to fight Hutu militias.
Rebels in Congo fought pro-government militiamen in the east Friday in a gunbattle that left six people dead, the U.N. said.
Rebels led by a high-ranking commander in eastern Congo denounced the authority of founding leader Laurent Nkunda on Thursday, signaling a split in the movement just as it is holding talks with the Congolese government.
An Ebola virus outbreak has killed 11 people in western Congo, the health minister said.
Two mass graves containing as many as 2,000 bodies have been discovered in eastern Congo, government officials said Wednesday.
A human rights group said Tuesday the Congolese government has killed an estimated 500 opposition members and alleged that Congo's president himself gave orders to crush opponents.
Heavy fighting in eastern Congo has driven at least 1,700 people from a refugee camp, the U.N. said Tuesday, and an aid group said a team of its medical workers has been trapped in a nearby hospital.
Rebels from neighboring Uganda kidnapped 90 children in eastern Congo, and weeks of fighting in the restive border region have forced 100,000 people to flee their homes, U.N. officials said Monday.
A team of U.N. peacekeepers lowered by helicopter to a remote plane crash site in eastern Congo on Thursday recovered all 17 bodies from a humanitarian flight that crashed four days ago, a U.N. spokesman said.
Congo sealed its border with Uganda on Saturday to cut off a rebel group's supply line, government officials said.
Rebels and the army fought one of their fiercest battles in eastern Congo this year on Thursday, exchanging machine-gun and mortar fire all day outside a national park that is home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas.
At least 26 prisoners have died of hunger in a prison in Congo since the beginning of the year, U.N. officials said.
Congo troops clashed Friday with Rwandan Hutu militias with whom they were formerly allied, culminating a week of violence that has forced more than 12,000 people from their homes and prompted the U.N. refugee agency to suspend operations.
An attempt by police to evict hundreds of people mining without permission on government property in southern Congo turned into a clash that killed a child who was caught in the crossfire, officials said Friday.
At least 10 bodies have been recovered after a boat capsized on Lake Tanganyika in eastern Congo, an official said Wednesday. The official said the overloaded boat was piloted by a drunken captain.
Rebels battled pro-government militia fighters in eastern Congo on Monday, the first fighting in the volatile region since warring parties signed a peace deal last week.
Years of fighting in Congo's restive east ended — on paper at least — Wednesday as warlords and militia fighters signed a long-awaited peace accord with the government of this huge Central African country.
Government negotiators and rebel groups reached a deal to end fighting in the vast country's restive east, where some 800,000 people had to flee their homes over the last year, officials said Monday.
One of Congo's fiercest warlords sent a delegation on Sunday to meet with members of the government on the first day of peace talks in the provincial outpost of Goma.
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