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Rebels from the M23 movement and the army are fighting just north of Goma, a regional capital in the DRC that the rebels had occupied briefly in November, both sides say.
A journalist has been found dead in eastern DRC as threats to media are on the increase.
The DRC government says more than 20 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province.
SANDF soldiers who are training for a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though the army as a whole is overstretched and underfunded, the army chief says.
Cement firm PPC plans to enter the Democratic Republic of Congo with a $200m factory, its chief executive says.
The DRC is to create the city of Lumumbaville in honour of liberation symbol Patrice Lumumba.
Desperate to save children from being used as soldiers in the DRC, residents of the notorious "Triangle of Death" have taken matters into their own hands.
The first troops belonging to an intervention brigade aimed at taking on armed groups in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have arrived for their mission, a UN official says.
The air force has showed off its military might with precision bombing and helicopter gunships firing fusillades of rockets just days ahead of an unprecedented "peace enforcing" deployment to the eastern DRC.
Nearly 30 people have been kidnapped in eastern DRC by the M23 rebels in their fief of Rutshuru since the beginning of April, says a community leader.
A spokesperson for the UN refugee agency in Uganda says hundreds of Congolese are fleeing into Uganda to avoid being forcibly conscripted into the ranks of the rebel group M23.
DRC troops raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, in the country’s volatile east after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November, a UN report says.
Attackers have killed a Pakistan peacekeeper in an ambush in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN says.
The DRC has displaced fellow African nation Niger to gain the inevitable distinction of being the worst place in the world to be a mother, according to a report.
A new UN intervention brigade to be deployed in conflict-stricken eastern Democratic Republic of Congo must carry out only limited strike operations.
