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DR Congo Must Identify Those Behind Kasai Massacres

DR Congo must identify both senior army personnel and politicians behind the massacres in the volatile Kasai region, a...

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UN Identifies 38 New Probable Mass Graves In DR Congo

Another 38 probable mass graves have been discovered in DR Congo in the country's troubled central region of Kasai, the...

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UN To Send Experts To Probe DR Congo Violence

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send a group of experts to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help...

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7 Militants Killed In Clashes With Army In Eastern DR Congo

At least seven militants were killed Thursday in clashes with troops involving heavy weapons in a city in Democratic...

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Govt-Backed DR Congo Militia Shot Babies, Hacked Toddlers

The UN accused DR Congo on Tuesday of backing a militia that has mutilated toddlers and hacked pregnant women in the...

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Children Raped In DR Congo Militia Violence

The United Nations has documented dozens of cases of serious child abuse including rape and kidnap in five days of...

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Children Raped In DR Congo Militia Violence

The United Nations has documented dozens of cases of serious child abuse including rape and kidnap in five days of...

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DR Congo Snubs UN Warning On Probe Into Kasai Violence

DR Congo authorities on Thursday rebuffed a UN warning to launch an international probe into violence in the central...

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UN Honours 2 Ghanaian Peacekeepers Posthumously

The United Nations has posthumously conferred its highest awards, the Dag Hammarskjold Medals on two Ghanaian...

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UN To Honour Two Ghanaian Peacekeepers Posthumously

Two fallen peacekeepers from Ghana will be honoured at the United Nations Headquarters on Wednesday, 24 May, to mark...

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S. Sudan Ex-Rebels Hold Dozen UN Staff Hostage In DR Congo

South Sudanese former rebels are holding about a dozen UN staff hostage in a refugee camp in eastern Democratic...

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UN Renews Smaller DRC Peacekeeping Force

The United Nations Security Council has renewed the mandate of the peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of...

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UN Votes To Scale Down Mission

The UN Security Council has voted to cut the size of Monusco, its largest and most expensive peacekeeping mission,...

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UN Renews Smaller DR Congo Peackeeping Force

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Friday to renew the mandate of the peacekeeping force in the...

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DR Congo Tribal Rebellion

Beheadings, mass graves, kidnapped foreigners, child soldiers: a tribal insurrection in the Democratic Republic of...

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UN To Cut Back DR Congo Peacekeeping Force

The United Nations Security Council will vote Friday to cut the number of troops and police in its peacekeeping mission...

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DR Congo Probes Killing of UN Researchers

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday they have launched a probe into the killing of two UN...

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Bodies Found of Two UN Experts In DRCongo Amid Spiralling Violence

Two foreign UN experts who were kidnapped in DR Congo have been found dead, one of them decapitated, the government...

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UN Urges DRC To Implement December Political Deal

The United Nations said Tuesday that nearly three months after a political agreement was signed in the Democratic...