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Nineteen people are killed and 26 more injured during the explosions of mortar bombs in the town of Mweso in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The March 23 Movement is blamed for the attack.
2024-01-23

Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, who championed human rights, freedom, and greater democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), died at the age of 81.
2021-07-12

Suspected Allied Democratic Forces militants kill at least 18 people and burn down a church in an attack near Oicha in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2020-10-29

Suspected Islamist militants kill at least 62 civilians in a series of massacres in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as killings of civilians intensify. The country's armed forces launch counter-offensives against insurgents of the Allied Democratic Forces.
2020-02-1

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo agree an international border force to patrol their mutual border.
2012-07-15

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo arrest an army officer over a mass rape of civilians in the east of the country on 1 January.
2011-01-21

Médecins Sans Frontières accuses the Democratic Republic of the Congo of not doing enough to prevent war rape after 33 women are raped in Fizi, South Kivu, on New Year's Day.
2011-01-6

Hundreds of people are believed to have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in river boat accidents.
2010-09-4

A draft United Nations report says crimes by the Rwandan army and allied rebels in Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Second Congo War could be classified as genocide.
2010-08-27

A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo overturns death sentences granted to Norwegians Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland.
2010-04-22