Rebels in eastern Congo are threatening to view United Nations peacekeepers as hostile forces unless the world body explains its role and refrains from further attacks. The veiled threat comes only days after UN helicopter gunships bombarded several of the M23 rebels’ positions near Rutshuru in North Kivu province. In a letter to the UN Security Council, obtained by...
A M23 rebel fighter guards the venue of a news conference by the political leader Jean-Marie Runiga Rugerero in Bunagana, DR Congo M23 rebels defected from the army and took up arms in April Mutineer soldiers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have threatened to march on the key city of Goma if attacks against civilians in the city do not stop. One of their leaders...
The United Nations expressed new concern on Tuesday that rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are getting arms from other countries, as it sent reinforcements to a threatened city. The UN Security Council is to discuss the new strife Tuesday while international leaders are to use an African Union summit in Addis Ababa later this week to try to defuse tensions between...
Christelle Mbeni, from the province of Bandundu, was crowned Miss Congo on 23 June 2012 during a ceremony at the Grand Hotel in Kinshasa. As she prepares to compete for Miss World in China in October, many young people in Kinshasa argue about whether the contest is laudable or detestable. What do you think about the return of Miss Congo organised this year in the DRC for...
