Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) : News

[IPS]Washington -With casualties in the long-running conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) now surpassing every conflict since World War II, U.S. policymakers and advocates are stepping up campaigns to raise awareness and push legislation aimed at encouraging new negotiations, assisting in government reforms, and pressuring the neighbouring countries that have propped up the DRC's government. (AllAfrica)

[Bemba Trial Website]Lawyers representing Jean-Pierre Bemba in his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have reduced from 63 to 50 the number of witnesses they intended to call to testify for the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AllAfrica)

[IPS]Goma -The "blind and unrestricted" reintegration of M23 deserters into the Congolese army could harm the country, according to Thomas d'Aquin Mwiti, the chair of the North Kivu civil society platform, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (AllAfrica)

[MSF]Goma -Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is treating survivors of an attack on Mpeti in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AllAfrica)

[U.S. House]Washington, DC -Legislation on parental abduction of U.S. children overseas, human rights issues in Vietnam and the crisis in the Congo was passed at the first bill mark-up of the 113th Congress by the House panel that oversees human rights chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04). (AllAfrica)

[Times of Zambia]CONGOLESE soldiers are holding 16 Zambian fishermen captive for allegedly straying into that country while on a fishing expedition. (AllAfrica)

[ENOUGH]Goma, DR Congo and Washington, DC -Significant international repercussions for neighboring government support to rebels in Congo, and consumer pressure on companies that trade in conflict minerals, are weakening armed groups and providing new leverage for U.N. envoy Mary Robinson's efforts to help build peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, argues the Enough Project in a new report. (AllAfrica)

[Bemba Trial Website]Today, a witness said he regretted that the crimes his colleagues committed while they fought to capture power in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2002 and 2003 were not known to the world court trying former Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba. (AllAfrica)

[IRIN]Kampala -A UN intervention brigade will soon be deployed to the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a bid to neutralize militia groups operating there. (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]Violent clashes between rebels and government troops in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have left at least 21 people dead, a military official said Thursday. (AllAfrica)

[ICRC]Violence has reached unprecedented levels in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting between the army and armed groups intensifies. The situation is compounded by inter-ethnic tensions and violence between armed groups in North Kivu and South Kivu. (AllAfrica)

[New Times]I happened to pass by the Kigeme Refugee Camp in Nyamagabe District the other day. The camp is now full with some nearly 18,000 refugees, most of them from Masisi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (AllAfrica)

[ANGOP]Luanda -The Foreign Affairs minister, Georges Chicoti, last Tuesday in Luanda said that the Tripartite Meeting held last Monday, in South Africa, to analyse the situation prevailing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, brought about the expected results. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Africa's commodity boom of the 1970s is singularly remarkable because it failed to deliver economic and social transformation. In a majority of resource rich countries, a tight clique of corrupt politicians and their acolytes controlled natural resources revenues. Is Africa's new resource boom on course to produce a boon or a curse? (AllAfrica)

[OSISA]In December 2012, Journalist in Danger, a Congolese NGO that defends media freedom, issued its latest annual report. As well as describing many attacks on journalists over the previous year, the report shows how much mobile phones and the Internet have transformed the daily work of Congolese journalists. (AllAfrica)

[OSISA]The multinational mining company, Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (ENRC), is back in the news - and the firing line - once again due to its controversial investments in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). (AllAfrica)

[Bemba Trial Website]François Bozizé's rebels terrorized civilians in some Central African Republic (CAR) towns that were under the control of Jean-Pierre Bemba's troops, the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard on Friday. (AllAfrica)

[ANGOP]Luanda -Foreign Affairs ministers of Angola, South Africa (host) and RDC will discuss Monday the prevailing situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]Eight tones of immature fish worth millions of shillings destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been impounded. (AllAfrica)

[MSF]An upsurge in malaria is likely to have serious consequences for people in Orientale province in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) unless immediate action is taken, warned the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on World Malaria Day. (AllAfrica)

KAMPALA 20 May 2013 (IRIN) - Gaps in the healthcare system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are hampering the fight against malaria, a leading killer of children, say experts. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA 14 May 2013 (IRIN) - A UN intervention brigade will soon be deployed to the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a bid to neutralize militia groups operating there. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA 23 April 2013 (IRIN) - Uganda's government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched a pilot mobile court system to improve access to justice for victims of crimes in Nakivale, the country's oldest and largest refugee settlement. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 16 April 2013 (IRIN) - Improvements in nutrition and stronger government policies have led to a decline in childhood stunting, according to a new report on child nutrition. However, the condition continues to affect some 165 million children under the age of five globally. (irinnews.org)

LONDON 12 March 2013 (IRIN) - Since the World Trade Organization launched its Aid for Trade initiative in 2005, an estimated US$200 billion dollars of development funding has been mobilized for the programme. But some NGOs are asking whether Aid for Trade really helps reduce poverty. (irinnews.org)

KINSHASA 31 January 2013 (IRIN) - Health experts, including those from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), are considering introducing immunization campaigns as a way of dealing with cholera in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the disease is endemic. (irinnews.org)

BUNIA 23 January 2013 (IRIN) - For the past 10 months, a little-known conflict in a marginalized corner of northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has left a trail of killing, abduction, rape and forced displacement, with few signs of an imminent resolution. (irinnews.org)

KINSHASA 22 January 2013 (IRIN) - Some 40,000 former Angolan refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are living in limbo, unwilling to go home but lacking legal status in DRC. (irinnews.org)

M23 rebels sit in a vehicle as they withdraw from the eastern Congo town of Goma, Dec.

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In an exclusive interview with Chris McGreal in Kigali, Rwanda's president denies backing an accused Congolese war criminal and says challenge to senior US official proves his innocence A new M23 recruit demonstrates his martial arts skills in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last week.