Friday, 01 January 2021_At least 25 civilians have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east, local officials said, blaming the attack on the notorious ADF militia.
Thursday, 29 October 2020_Democratic Republic of Congo's army says its troops have killed 33 militiamen since intense fighting erupted in the northeastern province of Ituri on Saturday.
Saturday, 12 September 2020_At least 50 people are thought to have died when an artisanal gold mine collapsed near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local mining NGO said.
Sunday, 05 July_Gunmen have killed 11 people including military and local officials in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Sunday, an ambush attributed to a militia accused of a string of massacres.
TEHRAN, Dec 31_Militants have killed 18 people in an attack on a village in eastern Congo, a regional official and a local human rights group said on Monday, the latest in a 60-day counter-offensive that has killed nearly 200 civilians.
TEHRAN, Dec 5_The non-profit group Doctors without Borders (MSF) pulled its foreign staff out of an eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after an armed group tried to enter its compound.
TEHRAN, Dec 2_A young man has been killed and five other people have been wounded in a new protest against UN forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an AFP reporter reports.
TEHRAN, Nov 28_Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January, more than double the toll in the country's Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization says.
TEHRAN, Sept 01 -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pledged continued support for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s army fighting an array of militias.
TEHRAN, Jun 30 -Police on Sunday dispersed hundreds of anti-government marchers in Kinshasa and a protester was shot dead in the eastern city of Goma after President Felix Tshisekedi — the son of opposition icon Etienne Tshisekedi — warned against "confusing democracy with anarchy."
TEHRAN, Jun 25 -New research suggests the proliferation of new roads in the Congo is encouraging an ecological catastrophe. Vital habitats are disappearing and vulnerable animal populations are declining.
TEHRAN, Jun 24 - More than 1,500 people have died in a nearly 10-month-old outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said Monday.
TEHRAN, Jun 19 - Congo's military has deployed hundreds of soldiers to protect a major copper and cobalt mine owned by China Molybdenum Co Ltd from illegal miners, an army spokesman said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Jun 18 - Hundreds of thousands of people have fled inter-ethnic violence in northeastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two weeks, local authorities and the UN said Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Jun 4 - DR Congo's health ministry said late Monday that it had recorded more than 2,000 cases of Ebola, two-thirds of which had been fatal, since the disease broke out in the country's east 10 months ago.
TEHRAN, May 23 - The United Nations named an Emergency Ebola Response Coordinator on Thursday, creating a new position to boost efforts to contain a 10-month epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed more than 1,200 people.
TEHRAN, May 04 - Congo's Ebola epidemic is expected to continue spreading though the country's east, where it has killed 1,000 since August and sparked mistrust and frequent attacks on medical centers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Apr 18 - The mining town of Kamituga is located in an area with vast mineral resources estimated to be worth $24 trillion in untapped deposits, but despite this Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has one of the lowest levels of GDP per capita in the world.