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Page 30 The Democratic Republic of Congo is "the rape capital of the world", a senior UN official has said.Margot Wallstrom, the UN"s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, urged the Security Council to punish the perpetrators in DR Congo. Rape remained a dominant feature of the ongoing conflict in eastern ... Read Africa News story at BBC News (2010-04-28) United Nations officials visiting a refugee camp in northern Zambia on Wednesday issued a call for refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to return home. This is the final year of a voluntary repatriation programme launched in 2007 to encourage Congolese refugees in Zambia to return to ... Read Africa News story at IndependentOnline (2010-04-28) Bienvenu Mondondo, a Congolese man living in Belgium, applied for the ban, saying its depictions of Africans are ignorant and offensive. "It makes people think that blacks have not evolved," the Guardian website quoted him as saying. Tintin"s creator, Herge, redrew the 1930s book for a colour edition ... Read Africa News story at Times Live (2010-04-28) Taxi drivers in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, burnt tyres and erected barriers as they began a strike on Monday over police harassment and a new tax insurance, they told reporters. "There are no road signs in Kinshasa. When we park, we are arrested for illegal parking. ... Read Africa News story at IndependentOnline (2010-04-27) Armed men killed seven people in an attack on a Democratic Republic of Congo army training base in the east of the country, burning down more than 80 huts as they fled, the army said on Monday. The Nyaleke training centre in Nord-Kivu province "was attacked by Mai-Mai (militia)... ... Read Africa News story at IndependentOnline (2010-04-27) Taxi drivers in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, burnt tyres and erected barriers as they began a strike on Monday over police harassment and a new tax insurance, they told reporters. "There are no road signs in Kinshasa. When we park, we are arrested for illegal parking. ... Read Africa News story at IndependentOnline (2010-04-27) Taxi drivers in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, burnt tyres and erected barriers as they began a strike on Monday over police harassment and a new tax insurance, they told reporters. "There are no road signs in Kinshasa. When we park, we are arrested for illegal parking. ... Read Africa News story at IndependentOnline (2010-04-27) Armed men killed seven people in an attack on a Democratic Republic of Congo army training base in the east of the country, burning down more than 80 huts as they fled, the army said on Monday. The Nyaleke training centre in Nord-Kivu province "was attacked by Mai-Mai (militia)... ... Read Africa News story at IndependentOnline (2010-04-27) BUJUMBURA, April 25, 2010 (AFP) - Burundi"s President Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader and born-again Christian, has been chosen as the ruling party"s candidate for June elections. The 45-year-old Hutu was elected unanimously on Saturday to run for a second term in the June 28 vote, by 1 ... Read Africa News story at IndependentOnline (2010-04-25) The leader of Burundi"s ex-rebel Hutus, Leonard Nyangoma, was on Sunday chosen by his party as presidential candidate for a June election, according to an AFP journalist. Nyangoma, 58, heads the National Council for the Defence of Democracy, which came fourth in 2005 legislative elections and has five deputies ... Read Africa News story at IndependentOnline (2010-04-25) News Results: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 |
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