U.S. asks Congo to pull some oil blocks from auction to protect forests
KINSHASA (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has asked Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw some of the oil blocks it has put up for auction in order to…
KINSHASA (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has asked Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw some of the oil blocks it has put up for auction in order to…
KINSHASA (Reuters) – A top adviser to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s president Felix Tshisekedi has resigned after he was allegedly caught on tape negotiating a corrupt mineral deal, an…
By Erikas Mwisi Kambale BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo – Suspected Islamist militants killed around 20 people in attacks on two villages in eastern Congo over the weekend, the army…
By Djaffar Sabiti and Fiston Mahamba GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo -Three United Nations peacekeepers and at least 12 civilians were killed during a second day of anti-U.N. protests in…
Seattle – Herdade Lokua, 34, and Jospin Mujangi, 32, of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Seattle to conspiracy and Lacey Act charges.…
By Aaron Ross (Reuters) – A temporary administrator appointed by a Congolese court to run the world’s second-largest cobalt mine ordered majority Chinese owner CMOC to suspend marketing and export…
KINSHASA -The World Bank and Congo have signed two funding conventions of$900 million to boost female entrepreneurship and access to water and electricity in the east and west of the…
By Stanis Bujakera and Aaron Ross KINSHASA – More than $400 million in tax advances and loans that Democratic Republic of Congo’s state mining company Gecamines said it paid to…
DAKAR -The third Ebola patient in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo has died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, the latest fatality in an outbreak first reported last…
KINSHASA -A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health authorities to enforce urgent containment measures just four months after the previous outbreak…
WASHINGTON -The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Belgian businessman Alain Goetz and a network of companies tied to him that it accused of being involved in the illicit…
By Aaron Ross DAKAR -About 50 people were sentenced to death, many in absentia, in Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday in connection with the murders of U.N. experts Zaida…
UN peacekeepers have shot dead two protesters after more than 1,000 people stormed a United Nations base in the town of Beni. The protesters are angry about an increasing number…