KINSHASA, 5 Sep 2005 (IRIN) - The Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) announced on Saturday that Rwanda had begun extraditing dissidents associated with a breakaway army general in eastern Congo, Laurent ...

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KINSHASA, 23 Jun 2005 (IRIN) - Although 15,000 former militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern district of Ituri have been disarmed, the UN mission in the country, known as MONUC, ...

BUNIA, 12 Apr 2005 (IRIN) - The disarmament effort of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known as MONUC, has brought almost 3,000 minors into the care of child-protection agencies ...

KINSHASA, 28 June 2007 (IRIN) - Violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has forced non-governmental organisations to limit operations in some areas in North and South Kivu, officials ...

KIGALI, 7 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - The governments of Rwanda and Uganda have denied a recent report by the human rights NGO Amnesty International that they are involved in trafficking arms to eastern ...

KINSHASA, 13 Jun 2006 (IRIN) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is preparing to hold its first democratic elections in 45 years on 30 July, but the main political opposition party is not ...

KINSHASA, 25 Sep 2006 (IRIN) - Senior aides to the two candidates running for president in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have agreed to make Kinshasa a weapons-free zone to ensure that the ...

KINSHASA, 6 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - The search for possible victims of an earthquake near the lakeside town of Kalemie in eastern Congo (DRC) continued along the shores of Lake Tanganyika on Tuesday, ...

BUNIA, 28 Jun 2005 (IRIN) - Thousands of Congolese civilians may have been displaced by recent fighting between UN peacekeeping troops and local militiamen in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

GOMA, 15 November 2007 (IRIN) - People have been returning to camps for displaced people (IDPs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province after fresh fighting near the main town of ...

KINSHASA, 14 Mar 2006 (IRIN) - During a nine-day working visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo which began on 6 March, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guéhenno, ...