Congo

AP - More than 15,000 people were raped in the volatile eastern region of Congo last year, according to the best data available, the top U.N. envoy in the African…

AP - The mass graves are hidden in the darkening shade of a hard-to-reach banana plantation, high up a mountain above the cloud line, at the end of a treacherous…

AP - Congo’s president has ordered mining suspensions in three provinces in volatile eastern Congo.

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AP - Two boat capsizes in one weekend on Congo’s vast rivers have left 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead in unrelated incidents that were both characterized by…

AP - A Congolese official says 70 people are believed dead after a riverboat capsized in the second reported deadly boat tipping this weekend.

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AP - A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official…

AP - A report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period won’t be released until October, the U.N.’s top human rights official said Thursday,…

AP - Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest, the regional director of International Medical Corps told The Associated…

AP - The top U.N. envoy in Congo said Wednesday that two peacekeeping patrols were not informed by villagers that mass rapes were taking place and the United Nations is…

AP - A passenger plane crashed Wednesday in western Congo, killing 19 people but police said there were two survivors.

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