CONGO WATCH

Jan 29 2007 Reuters report (via CFD): The International Criminal Court (ICC) was due to rule on Monday whether there was enough evidence ag...

BBC report via Kuna Jan 27 2007: The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Saturday began his African tour, aimed at bringing p...

Nov 23 2006 BBC report says the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has given the forces of his presidential riva...

Nov 21 2006 BBC report Congo court burnt in poll protest - excerpt: The Democratic Republic of Congo's Supreme Court has been set on fi...

Oct 19 2006 Sapa-AFP report via IOL Kinsasha - A European Union military force deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ahead of ...

IRIN Interview 8 Sep 2006.

IRIN Special report on Congo (not DRC) 31 Aug 2006.

Aid workers have fled Gety, in the Ituri District of DRC, after attacks by armed gangs. They have retreated to Bunia, the district capital, ...

UN News Centre report 31 Aug 2006 - excerpt: Although the troubled eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has made some...

Bodies are still lying in the streets of Kinshasa and pillaging continues in some neighbourhoods but a ceasefire reached late on Tuesday bet...

Some 400 extra European Union troops are being flown into DRC capital, Kinshasa, in an attempt to quell gun battles. The Dutch and German pe...

UN peacekeepers in the DRC have rescued several foreign ambassadors trapped in a house in Kinshasa by heavy shooting. "They're out ...

Several foreign ambassadors in the DRC have sought shelter in the house of an opposition leader after heavy shooting, BBC reported today: T...

This is terrible: just in, from The Salon Breaking News: DRC : Gunfight pins down envoys in Congo capital - Yahoo! News: "KINSHASA (Re...

President Kabila wins DR Congo's landmark poll, but fails to secure 50% of the vote, forcing a second round. Full story: BBC

President Joseph Kabila has taken 90 percent of the vote in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, Maniema and Katanga. But he managed only 16...

Ali at The Salon picks up on a story about Iran trying to import uranium from DRC: the shipment was intercepted in Tanzania, The Sunday Ti...

Just received an email from Dr Edward B Rackley in Washington, DC, USA telling me he works in Congo regularly and other African countries as...

Secretary-General Kofi Annan led a chorus of UN voices today in congratulating the DRC for the largely peaceful manner in which the vast Afr...

For regular updates on the election, visit Ali's blog The Salon . Ali is a young Congolese chap living in America. His mother works fo...