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(RTTNews) - Former Congolese Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba denied the war crimes charges pressed against him at the opening session of his war crimes trial at the at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Monday.
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Jean Pierre Bemba faces five charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity
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Nearly 200 prisoners in the Democratic Republic of Congo have escaped from a jail in the remote north-west of the country.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) — The UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday launched a polio immunization...
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A senior officer in the Democratic Republic of Congo has used the military to illegally profit from a gold mine, sources have told the BBC
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Fourteen bodies, some of them mutilated with machetes, have been discovered in a river west of Burundi’s capital.
At least one of the victims - whose identities...
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A United Nations draft report accusing Rwanda’s army of hunting down and killing tens of thousands of refugees in the Congo in the 1990s has threatened to...
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I have never had much respect for the United Nations, and for some of its agencies, like the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), I have absolutely none. The UNSC, in charge...
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Many people are feared dead in two separate boat accidents in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
One of the boats was carrying up to 300 people when it caught fire on...
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The United Nations decided to delay publication of its report on atrocities in Congo until Oct. 1, letting Rwanda address genocide allegations while urging Kigali to...
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The number of reported victims of a recent mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown by nearly a hundred over the last week, the United Nations said on...
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The United Nations has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
An...
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The United States will help any effort to bring to justice rebels accused in the “horrific” mass rape of women and children in the Democratic Republic of...
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Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers’ base in an eastern Congo mining...
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A group of commandos from a Congolese rebel group ambushed a United Nations peacekeeping base hours before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least three Indian members of...
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Scores of people died and hundreds more were injured in a rail disaster in Congo-Brazzaville, officials said on Tuesday, as the government announced three days of...
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First, the rebels killed four of Joseph Munyaneza’s children in 1997. The family fled to another village.
The following year, that village came under siege....
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The number of rapes carried out by civilians in eastern Congo has increased by 17-fold in the last few years, according to a study released Thursday that says sexual...
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In the remote northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a notorious group of rebels has laid claim to the title of most crazed and murderous in Africa, killing at...
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A human rights organisation yesterday released a chilling report indicating that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) killed at least 321 civilians during a...
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Evidence of the massacre of at least 321 people in Democratic Republic of Congo has been uncovered by the BBC.
The killings took place last December but have not...
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Hollywood actor Ben Affleck has established a new foundation in eastern Congo to aid women and children affected by rape and sexual violence.
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An army of humanitarian organizations has been unable to end years of recurring hunger in conflict-torn Congo. Now a South American research group says it may have...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been off the U.N.’s watch list since March 2008 when the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council buckled under pressure from...
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Inter-tribal clashes that raged over two months in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo killed 270 people, the Congolese government said on...
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The tropical rain turns Goma’s lava-blackened streets to slurry as thick grey storm clouds thunder overhead.
For hours the city is on pause as its hawkers and...
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A Nevada-based company’s purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians,...
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One of Africa’s most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries including in the United States and...
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This Sunday “60 Minutes” will present an investigation into how the global gold industry is helping fuel violence and chaos in the Congo.
CBS reporter...
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A new United Nations report says that the Congolese Army continues to funnel weapons to rebel groups that are smuggling millions of dollars in gold and other minerals...
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More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN says.
Many of those fleeing...
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Sanction busters are smuggling 40 tonnes of gold annually out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations official has told the BBC.
Dino Mahtani said most...
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A former leader of Congo’s Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76.
Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in...
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Rape and defilement have been documented as the most common violations against women in the East Africa and Great Lakes Region, a scenario that women activists fear...
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Looking at herself in the mirror, nine-year-old Helena squealed with delight at her reflection, standing upright with just the slightest support of her therapist. A...
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More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January, humanitarian...
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Rape as a weapon of war against men has begun to rise in Congo. The shocking plight of the women suffering what is likely the worst sexual violence in the world has...
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Since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended her African trip, the news cycle has seemingly abandoned the women of Congo–women who soldier on despite...
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For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from abusive rebels has turned into a nightmare of its own.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Monday for Congolese youth to lead nationwide protests against massive corruption and rampant sexual violence in...
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