Topic: Nord-Kivu Province
While attention in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been focused on the possibility of post-election violence in Kinshasa and other big...
Print Email . The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over fresh violence in eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
The trial of a local driver who works for the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, accused of illegally trying to export minerals, has begun, a judicial official said Tuesday.On Monday, the provincial mines minister of Nord-Kivu province ...
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced a militiaman to death and three others to life terms for the hacking death of three Indian UN peacekeepers in 2010, an official said Thursday.The four members of the tribal Mai-Mai ...
Nine prisoners, among them soldiers facing the death penalty, are on the run in the Democratic Republic of Congo after escaping from a jail in the east of the country, an aid group said Wednesday.The inmates broke free from Kangbai prison ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has freed two Americans, a Frenchman and two Nigerians accused of gold smuggling after they paid a three-million-dollar fine, the attorney general said Saturday.The men -- four businessmen and a US pilot -- were arrested early February after ...
Democratic Republic of Congo troops and armed groups have continued illegal dealing in minerals in the country's east in spite of a six-month ban, a non-governmental organisation said Friday."The ban has not only failed to tackle the conflict minerals problem ...
DR Congo authorities were Wednesday trying to shed light on a murky case of suspected gold trafficking in mineral-rich Nord-Kivu province after four foreigners were arrested with large quantities of gold and dollars.Four foreign "businessmen" -- an American, a Frenchman and two ...
Five soldiers and two police have been killed in an attack on a security post in the strife-torn eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said Tuesday, blaming Rwandan rebels.A local militia group, however, also claimed responsibility for the ...
"Six civilians were arrested and taken into custody last week. We caught them red-handed mining cassiterite at Bunakwa," about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Walikale, in Nord-Kivu province, said Captain Victor-Destin Mongombo, head of the military prosecutor's office in Walikale."We ...
