CONGO WATCH

John Holmes will meet president Joseph Kabila during five-day mission. Top UN man in DR Congo mission as unrest escalates From BBC News, Kin...

Women in DR Congo are being escorted to market by UN troops. UN official calls DR Congo 'rape capital of the world' From BBC News o...

Copy of Enough Project Press Release: EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL: April 19, 2010 CONTACT: Jonathan Hutson, Enough Project, 857-919-5130 jhu...

Africa correspondent From The Economist print edition 15 April 2010: The Economist is looking for a new Africa correspondent to be based ...

Red Cross: 8 staff kidnapped in eastern Congo From The Associated Press, Tuesday, 13 April 2010: GENEVA - Eight Red Cross staff have been ki...

Ugandan soldiers on patrol in the Congo look for tracks of the Lord’s Resistance Army in late March 2010. Former rebels of the LRA have now ...

Security Council Report has published a Special Research Report: Seeking a New Compact: Resolution 1906 and the Future of MONUC . In April t...

Heavily armed rebels attacked the town of Mbandaka and overran the airport, UN officials said, killing a Ghanaian peacekeeper and another UN...

UN probe into alleged massacre in remote northeast of DR Congo continues From UN News Centre, 29 March 2010: Photo: Refugees who fled LRA a...

Press Release from Eastern Congo Initiative Ben Affleck Launches Initiative to Support Local Solutions in Eastern Congo LOS ANGELES, 22 Marc...

Many mines are controlled by armed groups that ransack the land’s resources to buy weapons, robbing the country of tax revenues, and creatin...

President Kagame was in London this week as Rwanda took the latest step in its development journey as its flag was officially raised alongsi...

Here are some photos of British government minister Baroness Kinnock on her first visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as Ministe...

See reports at Niger Watch , Thursday, 18 February 2010.

Seen on twitter : RT with correct link #DFIDjobs New vacancy: Statistics Adviser, Kenya. Apply now: http://ow.ly/12ExI Closing date: 27 Feb ...

If a proposal under consideration by the African Union this week were to bear fruit, Haitians made homeless by the earthquake could start af...

Land disputes at the root of African wars A selection of the African continent's fights over land that have turned into violent, conflic...

From The Office of Tony Blair Wednesday, January 27, 2010 The following interview with President Paul Kagame of Rwanda appeared in the lates...

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair has the utmost faith that Africa will succeed, something the continent needs from investors and advisors...

The arrest comes weeks after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner made his first visit to Rwanda since diplomatic ties were restored in ...