The Latest Breaking News from Congo

Congo improves extractive sector transparency but more needed - anti-graft body

Democratic Republic of Congo has made progress in implementing transparency in its extractive mining sector but needs to do more in publishing contracts and revenues from the sector, a global anti-corruption body said.

Reuters · Oct 20, 2022

DRC army backed rebel groups that abused civilians, says rights group

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has credible evidence that army units in the Democratic Republic of Congo backed armed groups that were implicated in serious abuses during fighting with rebels in the east of the country.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 20, 2022

Noelle was searching for a connection to her Congolese heritage. She found it in Shepparton

Adopted by an Australian family when she was a toddler, Noelle was curious about her Congolese birth culture. Now she's reconnecting with it.

ABC News · Oct 13, 2022

Homemade explosive device in east Congo injures at least three

A homemade explosive device went off in a cinema in the eastern Congolese city of Butembo on Monday, wounding at least three people, an army official said.

Reuters · Oct 3, 2022

Lack of funding in focus as Congo hosts pre-COP27 climate talks

High-level speakers at climate talks in Kinshasa called out rich nations on Monday for failing to honour a $100 billion per year funding pledge to developing countries, warning that fair finance was needed to avert the worst of the climate crisis.

Reuters · Oct 3, 2022

Burundi's Gatumba massacre offers a window into the past and future of the DRC conflict

For nearly three decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been embroiled in violence. Millions of people have been killed and an estimated 5.6 million others displaced by civil wars, local feuds and cross-border conflicts. The neighbouring countries of Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda have been locked into this ongoing…

The Conversation · Oct 2, 2022

Rebel violence in eastern Congo causes hunger to soar

Humanitarian workers say hunger is now soaring in eastern Congo after months of fighting between M23 rebels and the army

The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2022

Livingston midfielder Scott Bitsindou makes loan moves to Championship outfit Arbroath

The 26-year-old Congo international could return to the club in January as part of the deal.

Daily Record · Sep 29, 2022

Indigenous groups, activists resist Congo's oil block plan

The auctioning of oil and gas blocks in Congo has stirred resistance and concern among local Indigenous communities worried about damage to their homes and large swaths of forest, according to a report released Thursday by several environmental groups

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2022

At least 22 killed in two Uganda helicopter crashes, Congo army says

At least 22 people were killed when two Ugandan military helicopters crashed on Monday and Tuesday in east Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, a Congo army spokesman who asked not to be named told Reuters on Wednesday.

Reuters · Sep 28, 2022