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Rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo believe that rising demand for ivory in China is to blame for an unprecedented wave of elephant poaching in one of the country’s war-torn national parks.
Fourteen elephants have been slaughtered in as many...
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Rioting inmates raped around 20 female prisoners during a failed prison break in Democratic Republic of Congo’s violence-ravaged east, the country’s U.N....
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Eastern Lowland Gorillas have been severely affected by human activity and fighting for survival since the 1990s. There has been continuous reduction in their count due...
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Last Memorial Day weekend, I watched Hotel Rwanda. This year, I watched Lumumba. If you are an African and you haven’t watched the following movies: Sankofa, Hotel...
made popular May 25 2009
The problems hounding the Congo have turned it into a volcano waiting to be erupt. It’s long tryst with wars have crushed the well- being of its people, leaving...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Kinshasa
Officials say the death toll from the crash of a Boeing 737 that went down over a village in Congo has risen to seven.
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, Kinshasa
A Boeing 737 on a test flight crashed southeast of Congo’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least three people, officials said.
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Kinshasa
A provincial governor says a plane has crashed southeast of Congo’s capital. There is no word on casualties or whether it is a cargo or passenger plane.
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Goma
Authorities in eastern Congo have saved a baby gorilla from an animal trafficker who took it inside a plane hidden in a bag.
made popular Apr 28 2009
AP, Kampala
Uganda began withdrawing troops hunting brutal Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in neighboring Congo after the deadline for them to there expired Sunday, a Ugandan...
made popular Mar 15 2009
AP, Doshu
Zamuda Sikujuwa shuffles to a bench in the sunshine, pushes apart her thighs with a grimace of pain and pumps her fist up and down in a lewd-looking gesture to show how...
made popular Mar 14 2009
AP, Kiwanja
Some beat their heads against the wall until doctors inject them with tranquilizers. Others remain mute for days, their eyes darting around like frightened animals.
made popular Mar 7 2009
Hutu rebels have retaken positions they lost in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN peacekeepers say.
The UN says it has reports that FDLR rebels captured...
made popular Mar 2 2009
AP, Kigali
Thousands of Rwandan troops have departed neighboring Congo following an unusual joint military operation but Rwanda’s president said Sunday it wasn’t the...
made popular Mar 1 2009
AP, Kisangani
The U.N. chief on Saturday called for close collaboration between Congo’s government and the U.N.’s beleaguered peacekeeping mission there, but said its...
made popular Feb 28 2009
AP, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will embark on a wide-ranging African tour next week in a bid to shore up Congo’s struggling peacekeeping mission, show support for...
made popular Feb 19 2009
AP, Dungu
Early in the morning the warnings came: Rebels notorious for vicious attacks on civilians were advancing on this eastern Congolese town of thatched roof huts along the...
made popular Feb 18 2009
AP, Geneva
The U.N. says the number of Congolese seeking refuge in South Sudan from Lord’s Resistance Army rebels has reached 15,000.
made popular Feb 17 2009
AP, Goma
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...
made popular Feb 13 2009
AP, Goma
More than 40 rebels suspected of atrocities during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide were killed in an overnight air raid, a military spokesman said Friday.
made popular Feb 13 2009
AP, The Hague
A former child soldier calmly recalled in court Tuesday that he killed and mutilated people during a battle at a church school in eastern Congo.
made popular Feb 10 2009
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So far it were humans facing the heat of the illegitimate war forced on them by war mongers in Congo, it is now turn for innocent animals to suffer from the same, as...
made popular Sep 5 2007
The guns they hold are not to protect humans but to protect animals from poachers and rebel militia. Armed rangers take on the difficult task to protect the apes in...
made popular Aug 11 2007
The senseless and tragic killing of four vulnerable mountain gorillas has come as a shock to animal conservationists, not only endangering a hapless group but also...
made popular Aug 10 2007
The political unrest in Congo has resulted in trouble for the wildlife there and the militia has threatened to kill the rare mountain gorilla in the Virunga National...
made popular May 23 2007
While on one hand, the conservationists are concerned of the disappearing of the rare eastern Congo mountain gorilla due to the rebels’ killing and eating them,...
made popular Mar 2 2007
In a regime distraught with civil war, there remains no compassion for endangered species as they are poached and hunted for lucrative gains and bush meat.
Rebels in...
made popular Jan 18 2007
Hippo teeth and meat are very lucrative for the poachers, and they kill the animals randomly and indiscriminately. As a result of this widespread poaching, Hippos in...
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A Congolese woman tends to the fields in the Virunga national park, near the Ugandan border in eastern Congo on Tuesday Nov. 25, 2008. The director of Congo’s Virunga Park says rangers who fled fighting between rebels and soldiers are returning to...
