By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 24 October 2006 In the Democratic Republic of Congo, post-war elections have been marked by violence between rival supporters and against political campaigners. Meanwhile, journalists are being attacked, sanctioned and cri...
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 28 September 2006 watch Congo Children report The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold a second round in its post-war presidential election in October, in hopes of ending years of violence, misrule and corruption. But fo...
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 29 August 2006 Joseph Kabila Senior representatives for Congo's President Joseph Kabila and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba have met in Kinshasa to set up a commission to investigate post-election violence earlier this month....
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 01 August 2006 Even though voting day Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo was mostly peaceful, analysts and observers agree the process remains fraught with dangers, including a possible return to war. ------- Josep...
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 30 July 2006 Vote counting has started in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo amid renewed tension over the outcome in the country's first open election in over 40 years. There was some rioting in a mining town, caus...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 29 June 2006 The Democratic Republic of Congo is beginning campaigning for the first democratic elections in over 40 years. The difficulties the nation faces in staging such an election are evident in the fact that the...
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 26 July 2006 U.N. officials have expressed confidence in the overall success for Sunday's post-war election in the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, but have also raised several security concerns. Some political m...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 23 June 2006 A new assessment of Africa's massive Congo Basin rain forest finds that it is less degraded than environmentalists feared. The findings were announced in Paris, where African and Western officials ended a two-day co...
By David Lewis Kinshasa 02 March 2006 U.N. officials say a group of Congolese soldiers conducting a massive joint operation with U.N. peacekeepers mutinied Wednesday in the lawless east, forcing a hal...
IN THE NEWS - January 26, 2002: Congo Volcano By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. Last week, a volcano exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hot me...