Congolese police fired live rounds on Thursday to disperse protesters demanding the departure of the United Nations peacekeeping mission from the city of Beni, its mayor said.
Hundreds of youths have been protesting in several cities in eastern (...)
Democratic Republic of Congo recorded a second Ebola death in days following more than seven weeks without a new case, the World Health Organization said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
Congo had been due on Sunday to mark an end to the (...)
THE proceeds from Saudi Aramco's record initial public offering could rise to $29.4 billion should the oil giant exercise an option to sell 15 percent more stock, Wassim Al-Khatib, head of Investment Banking at National Commercial Bank said on (...)
DUBAI — Saudi Aramco expects the global petrochemical industry to grow in the range of 3 to 4 percent per year going forward, a top executive at the company said at an event on Tuesday.
For "chemicals we see 3 to 4 percent growth going forward," the (...)
After weeks of negotiations, Congo's ruling party signed a deal with opposition leaders that aims to end President
Joseph Kabila's 15-year-rule, dpa reported.
National institutions, such as the national monitoring committee, now needed to ensure an (...)
Social media will be blocked in Congo starting
Monday, in an apparent attempt to prevent protests against President
Joseph Kabila, according to dpa.
The measure will go into effect at one minute before midnight on Sunday and affect images, videos (...)
Twelve people have been killed in fighting between the Congolese army and militiamen outside a farm belonging to President Joseph Kabila, an army spokesman said Friday.
Army spokesman Mak Hazukay Mongba said the army repelled the attack and killed (...)
The Congolese army clashed with a local militia in Central Kasai province on Friday, killing 14 militiamen, officials said, according to dpa.
The army was responding to an attack by the Mouvement Politico-Coutumier, which had looted and torched (...)
At least 27 people drowned when a large fishing vessel sank on Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial governor said Sunday.
The boat, which was carrying more than 100 passengers, was on its way from the town of d'Inongo to (...)
At least two people were killed when tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the Democratic Republic of Congo to demand that national elections be held on time, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) said Thursday on (...)
A Ugandan rebel group killed at least 10 people and abducted six others during attacks on two villages in eastern Congo, a rights organization said on Saturday.
Rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) carried out the attacks in the provinces (...)
Clashes between the Congolese military and a rebel group have left at least 15 people dead, the military and a human rights organization said Tuesday, according to dpa.
Thirteen members of the Mai Mai militant group, which has installed itself in (...)
16 civilians have been shot dead by an armed
group in eastern Congo, dpa quoted an official and civil society groups as saying
Wednesday.
The discovery of the bodies on Tuesday and Wednesday morning in
Buleusa follows the disappearance of 46 people (...)
More than 30 people were killed in eastern Congo
in fighting between the army and a rebel group of Ugandan origin, the
army said Thursday, dpa reported.
Twenty members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and 11
government soldiers have been killed (...)
AlQa'dah 27, 1436, September 11, 2015, SPA -- Thirteen people were killed during clashes between a rebel group and the military in eastern Congo, dpa quoted army officials as saying Thursday.
Members of the Allied Defence Forces rebel group attacked (...)
Three people, including two children, were killed in a 5.6-magnitude earthquake that struck the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said Friday.
The Kivu region, including the main towns of Goma and Bukavu, trembled from three (...)
An offensive by government and UN troops against
rebels in eastern Congo has killed 34 guerillas and four soldiers
since it began in mid-May, military spokesman Jean-Claude Bongwangela said Saturday, according to dpa.
The campaign in Orientale (...)
Clashes between the army of the Democratic
Republic of Congo and a rebel group in the country's east left 21
people dead, dpa cited the Congolese military as saying Monday.
Army spokesman Victor Masandi said rebels of Allied Democratic (...)
Seventy-five rebels surrendered in eastern Congo on Saturday, five days after the army launched an offensive against the group they belong to, dpa quoted a government spokesman as saying.
Some of the members of the Democratic Forces for the (...)
Suspected Ugandan rebels on Wednesday killed at
least 16 civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,
officials said, according to dpa.
Members of the Ugandan group Allied Democratic
Forces-National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (...)
Nearly 30 people have been killed over the past week in clashes between the Congolese army and one of the armed groups operating in the east of the country, a spokesman for local United Nations peacekeepers said in Bunia on Thursday.
The fatalities (...)
More than 110 people were killed in clashes
between soldiers and rebels in northern Burundi, army officials said
Sunday, dpa reported.
Roughly 200 rebels have clashed with security forces over the past
few days in Cibitoke province, located about 60 (...)
The Saudia City Tennis Club 2008 season, dubbed as Edwin Morta's Farewell Cup, ended in an all exciting final showdown at the Saudia City NC-6 tennis courts.
In the ladies event, Rhoda Romerosa and Nelia Morta claimed the C-Category title against (...)
