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The Committee to Protect Journalists is troubled that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has imposed restrictions on the content of private broadcasters.

A leading international rights group condemned Congo's president for appointing six warlords to top army posts, saying the men -- accused of ethnic massacres, torture and rape in the country's lawless east -- ...

Landmark nationwide elections originally scheduled for June will be delayed by several months but should be held by November, the head of Congo's electoral commission said Friday.

On 5 January 2005, Deo Mulima Kampuku, a journalist with the Kinshasa-based daily "La Reference Plus", was sentenced in absentia to four years in prison with no parole and ordered to pay 63,260 FC (approx. ...

Congolese dissident soldiers have begun pulling out of a buffer zone set up by United Nations peacekeepers in the east to end clashes with government troops and allow humanitarian aid to flow, the U.N. said on ...

Residents of this village in northern Congo are waiting for the day gorillas will return to the Lossi wildlife sanctuary after being ravaged by the deadly Ebola ( news - web sites ) virus.

Heads of state from eleven Great Lakes Region countries signed a declaration of peace on Saturday, vowing to bring an end to conflict, hunger and rampant disease in the region.

Jean Felix's journey from Congo-Brazzaville to the UA men's basketball team took him from Africa, to Paris, to various cities in Alabama before his arrival in Tuscaloosa.

President Joseph Kabila suspended six cabinet ministers and 10 directors of state-run companies Thursday after a parliamentary inquiry alleged they had embezzled government funds.

PARIS: Starting Dec. 1, Air France will offer a new Paris-Riyadh service exclusively for business people from the oil sector heading to the Saudi capital, the airline announced on Wednesday.

What started out as a passing thought has become one of Joy Whaley's greatest passions.

Kaizer Chiefs are planning a memorable 60th birthday present for their chairman, Kaizer Motaung, in the form of a convincing victory over Bush Bucks at FNB Stadium on Saturday.

Former Ninja rebels and units of the national gendarmerie have been withdrawn from escorting train traffic between the capital, Brazzaville, and the port city of Pointe-Noire, the government has announced.

The World Bank has granted the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) $60-million (about R400-million) to develop community projects in education, health and food security, an official said Saturday.

GAC South Africa recently completed a series of shipping and logistics operations for two massive oil rigs of Smedvig, a leading Norwegian offshore drilling company, in a project that spanned two months from ...

The body in charge of certifying minerals for export from the Democratic Republic of Congo has set up three branches in formerly rebel-held areas to combat the trade in so-called blood diamonds, says Agence ...

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has vowed to arrest renegade Congolese rebel leader Gen.

A large oil slick off the coast of Congo is threatening to pollute the shoreline at the southern city of Pointe Noire, the environment ministry said on Friday.

Between songs, Samba Ngo exhorts his audiences with his bandstand mantra: "Let's dance now, for tomorrow who knows?" The live-in-the-moment philosophy flows from his sunny personality, ...

An ancient disease is wreaking havoc among impoverished pygmies in a remote region of the Republic of Congo, according to a U.N. report.

Israel's Supreme Court on Monday ordered Ariel Sharon's son to hand over potentially incriminating tapes and documents in two corruption investigations, including one that targets the ...

Congolese authorities arrested around 15 men after an apparent coup attempt in which gunmen attacked military bases and television stations in the capital Kinshasa.

Authoritarian rulers often organize national conventions or conferences. They do so when they realize that their legitimacy to rule has been eroded irreparably.

A measles epidemic has claimed six lives in the region between Sembe and Souanke, two villages 185 km and 245 km west of the city of Ouesso, capital of Sangha Department in northern ...

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Only 22 countries worldwide have fewer wireless phones per capita than Cuba, according to NationMaster.com. That ranking is improving as Cuba expands service, but the country is still about as wired ...

The Republic of Congo has planted its first privately run forest, as part of a regional initiative to develop sustainable, managed forests.

Angolan President Jos Eduardo dos Santos was on Monday officially invited to attended the Summit of the Economic Community of Central Africa States (CEEAC) scheduled for Monday next week in ...

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In an accord signed today at a Paris law office after years of negotiations, Libya admitted no responsibility for the 1989 downing of UTA flight 772, a DC-10 which exploded over Niger as it flew from ...

CONGO HAS changed tack and may invoke the Montreal Treaty on Civil Aviation - to which Rwanda is a signatory - to boost the case that President Joseph Kabila's government filed at the International ...

Libya signed an agreement to pay $1 million for each of the 170 people killed when a bomb destroyed a French airliner over Niger in 1989, LCI all-news television reported, citing a spokesman for ...