Congo
Rebel-backed charcoal traffickers destroy swathes of forest in Congo
Swathes of forest land in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park are being destroyed for valuable charcoal by criminals backing...
Scandal of minors who are miners: Tech firms accused over child labour
Tech majors including Apple, Samsung and Sony have been accused of using cobalt mined by child labourers in Congo.
Four killed in protest over plan to extend Congo Republic president’s rule
At least four protesters were killed in the capital of the Republic of Congo Tuesday as demonstrators defied a clampdown to protest at the president’s...
DR Congo is hiding protest death toll, says human rights group
Human Rights Watch has contradicted official figures released by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), saying at least forty people died in protests...
Women and children ‘hacked to death’ in DR Congo town
At least 22 people, most of them women and children, have been hacked and clubbed to death in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just days after...
Congo the latest African nation to fall victim to deadly spread of Ebola
The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared an Ebola outbreak in its northern Equateur province on Sunday after two out of eight cases tested came back...
Looking for a place to live in DR Congo? Try the cemetery
In a Congolese cemetery overrun with weeds and rubbish strewn among the graves and banana trees, the living have moved in with the dead—some of them...
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