Botswana, SADC congratulate new Seychelles president
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi on Tuesday sent a congratulatory message to Seychelles’ newly-elected President Wavel Ramkalawan. Masisi, also chair of the Southern African...
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‘Islamist ADF rebels’ free 900 inmates in DRC jail break
More than 900 prisoners have escaped from a jail in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Beni city after suspected Islamist rebels attacked the facility, officials...
More than 50 prisoners starve to death in east Congo prison
Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, the United...
Congo gold miners scour rubble for bodies after cave-in
Informal gold miners in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo scoured rubble on Saturday for more than 50 colleagues presumed dead after a mine collapsed under...
Can a tooth settle the mystery over Congo’s independence hero?
Belgium’s federal court said on Friday it would hand over a tooth, suspected to be the only remains of the murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice...
About 50 feared dead in DR Congo mine collapse
About 50 people are feared dead after a gold mine collapsed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said Saturday. The accident in...
Six killed in Burundi gun attack, weeks after similar incident
Unidentified attackers shot and killed six people in northern Burundi, an official said on Friday, weeks after a similar attack was reported in a southern...
Congo’s civil aviation chief suspended over Google internet balloon flight
DR Congo’s civil aviation authority chief has been suspended after authorising a Google internet balloon to overfly the territory “without notifying the government,” an official...
Thousands rally to support Congo’s threatened Nobel Laureate
A city in eastern Congo has rallied in support of Denis Mukwege, the Congolese Nobel Laureate who received death threats in recent weeks after he...
Congo elephant poacher gets 30 years forced labour
A poacher in Congo-Brazzaville has been sentenced to 30 years of forced labour for killing elephants, an NGO said Tuesday. Gerard Mombaza Mombembo, 35, from...