|
|
Page 1
At least 1,000 Congolese Tutsi refugees, mostly women and children, have been stuck on the Burundi border with Democratic Republic the Congo (DRC) since the middle of last week, waiting on authorities in the Congo to let them back in."Not a single organisation, either in Congo or Burundi had assisted ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2004-10-11)
BRAZZAVILLE, 25 February 2009 (IRIN) - The promise of a free meal at lunchtime has over the past few years seen up to 39,000 children going to school in the Republic of Congo, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). "Between 2002 and 2009 we"ve been feeding ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2009-02-25)
In the middle of the Moundzombo school courtyard at Betou in the north of the Republic of Congo, Aime Ngbatambala is surrounded by near-naked children, some crying, others playing hide-and-seek. "The children who are playing have just had a small meal," said Ngbatambala, a community leader. "The ones who ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2010-03-09)
Some 432 people, among them scores of children, arrested as vagrants by police on Friday in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, are still being held under harsh conditions, their parents said. "They received one meal on Friday and since it has been hard to get the police to ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2005-11-10)
THREE more trucks laden with maize were impounded in Chingola yesterday and district authorities suspect that a highly-organised cartel is behind the smuggling of maize and mealie meal.District Commissioner, Tobias Maliti said yesterday three more trucks destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were impounded, bringing the number of ...
Read Story at Times of Zambia (2009-02-19)
income families that have been affected by the floods. The assistance has also helped 141 vulnerable single mothers, 202 unemployed, 2,449 former combatants, 25 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo and 52 people who returned from the DRC, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia....
Read Story at AngolaPress (2008-05-15)
Disarmament and demobilisation experts of the Republic of Congo and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have agreed to repatriate former combants living in both countries. The agreement, reached at the end of a two-day meeting in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo (ROC), was published ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2004-05-04)
The depletion of forests in DR Congo by 1 percent annually endangers the existence of thousands of fauna and flora species in the country, the ministry of environment warned in a statement on the 34th anniversary of Earth Day. It said that half of DR Congo`s 200 million hectares of ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2004-05-07)
People in Eastern Congo are being preyed on by rival armed groups More than 1,000 people are dying every day as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a new report. The report by the International ...
Read Story at BBC News (2004-12-09)
The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says it has proof foreign troops entered the country after Rwanda threatened to do so. It says the soldiers crossed into eastern Congo the day after the threat. However the Monuc mission was unable to assert that the ...
Read Story at BBC News (2004-12-19)
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 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60