All posts tagged "DR Congo"
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1.0KAfricaDR Congo asks UN peacekeeping mission spokesman to leave country
The central African nation's government asked the peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, to withdraw spokesman Mathias Gillmann over "indelicate and inappropriate remarks"...
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742FinanceKCB acquires DR Congo’s Trust Merchant Bank in expansion drive
The deal now means KCB has a presence in eight countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and DRC. It...
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1.3KNationalUPDF says DR Congo Operations still ongoing
On June 15, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said President Museveni had instructed him and all UPDF forces in DR Congo to hold positions...
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1.0KAfricaGrief as more than 60 people perish in DR Congo Train accident
A train crash in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 60 people, the state rail company and local sources...
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1.0KCourtCongolese man gets death sentence for recruiting children into ADF
During the hearings, Malamu admitted having enlisted three minors in July 2020 in Eringeti on behalf of the ADF. The children were...
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1.0KBig StoryPresident Museveni calls for cooperation to defeat insecurity in the Great Lakes region
According to President Museveni, the groups causing insecurity in the region can all be defeated from what he said he has observed...
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1.3KAfricaICJ orders Uganda to pay DRC UGX 1 Trillion in War Reparations
The Congo demanded 11 billion dollars in damages from a war that left hundreds of thousands of her people dead and millions...
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730NationalLearners shun school in Bundibugyo over ADF Attacks
School administrators say that few learners have turned up after rebels on Wednesday night killed dozens of people and caused thousands to...
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1.1KAfrica26 killed in DR Congo market by high-voltage cable
Videos circulating on social media showed corpses slumped over market stalls with their legs immersed in muddy water, in some cases up...
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1.0KTourismVirunga’s Lowland gorilla population raises to seven after newborn discovered in Eastern DR Congo
DR Congo’s famed Virunga National Park on Friday announced the birth of a lowland gorilla in this tourist region boosting the population...
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1.2KAfricaArmy kills 25 ADF rebels in Ituri
Military sources said during the bombardments, Musa Baluku, the ADF commander, was reportedly wounded, and that he has since temporarily handed over...
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865AfricaADF Militia kills 3 civilians in Beni suspected terror attack
BENI, DR CONGO: At least three (3) civilians are reported to have been killed, with several others taken hostage in a suspected...
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1.3KAfricaDeath toll from DRC suicide attack up to 7
The death toll from the suicide attack in the eastern city of Beni, on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern border with...
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Deadly suicide bomb attack at bar in eastern DRC
At least six people have died and several others injured in an explosion in Beni in eastern regions of the Democratic Republic...
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653AfricaDR Congo starts Ebola vaccinations in east of country
KINSHASHA, DRC: Vaccination against the deadly Ebola disease began on Wednesday in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni, the...
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1.0KAfricaOver 100 feared dead after vessel capsizes in DR Congo
KINSHASHA, DRC: More than 100 people are believed dead or missing in the sinking of a makeshift vessel on the Congo river,...
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943AfricaJournalist murdered in eastern DR Congo
A journalist for DR Congo’s national broadcaster had his throat slit in North Kivu in the country’s east where massacres and clashes...
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871Africa16 Civilians Killed In Suspected Militia Attack In DR Congo
Suspected members of an Islamist militia killed 16 people as they were returning from a weekly market in eastern Democratic Republic of...
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958Just InUgandan Shot in Koboko at Uganda- DRC border
KOBKO DISTRICT: A 30-year-old man in Koboko District is nursing wounds after he was shot by unknown gunmen crossing over from the...
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1.4KAfricaDRC ex-President Joseph Kabila earns Master’s Degree
By Nation.Africa Former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila has earned a Master’s degree as he utilises his break from active...