All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The trial against two former Congolese rebel leaders for crimes allegedly committed by their militias in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2003 is set to begin tomorrow in The Hague at the International Criminal Court.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
It is Wednesday, September 8, 2009, around 9.30 am when suddenly, my phone rings. I pick up and hear the voice of my colleague Caddy Adzuba from Radio Okapi on the other end of the line.
Greenpeace UK blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sarah is in Kinshasa, visiting our Congo office on their first anniversary. I write from our office in Kinshasa , in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In some ways it's very like any other Greenpeace office. There are pictures of the Rainbow Warrior on the wall, people on phones rush from room to room, journalists and cameramen walk in and out. There's a shout and we all crowd round the TV to...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
DVD review: Zaire '74 was a concert series of legendary proportions, staged in Kinshasa, that nearly ended up as a footnote in music history after legal wrangles.
KIJO (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Hudson River water landings? Those are so yesterday, man. Somewhere in the Congo today there's a pilot who, after a slight, um, miscalculation , crash landed his plane in a lava field. Now, we can make light of this incident because all 117 passengers and crew walked away from the crash largely unharmed. The only real casualty was the captain's ego, although I think he's probably the talk of the terminal...
Geekologie (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A passenger plane headed for an airport in eastern Congo overshot the runway (spider solitaire) and ended up crash-landing in lava. Wicked! Of course, I'm making this cooler than it actually was because it wasn't molten lava and it wasn't in the middle of a volcano . Truthfully, I don't even know why I'm reporting this besides 1. I'm awesome and B. journalism. The plane was flying from Kinshasa to...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Paris Club of creditor nations is close to reaching an accord on debt relief for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said yesterday, as a newspaper reported an agreement has been stalled by the US and Canada.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), flanked by leaders from World Vision, the Enough Project, Global Witness, and the Information Technology Industry Council, unveiled legislation he will introduce in the U.S. House of Representatives today to help stop trade in conflict minerals that is sustaining a brutal war of unfathomable atrocities, especially against women, in the Congo. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) co-sponsored...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Filed under: Africa , Congo , Zimbabwe , Airports , News If you've ever seen a lava flow, you know that once the stuff cools and hardens, it's hard to move. In the Congo, this has created a big problem at the airport in Goma. Back in 2002, when the Nyiragongo Volcano erupted, lava flowed onto the runway, thus shortening it. A shorter runway does not sound good. It's not. Today, this was proved true...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
United Nations peacekeepers helped passengers and provided emergency medical treatment today after an airliner with 117 passengers on board over-ran the airstrip in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
European leaders are due to arrive in Brussels in the next few hours to select a president with the announcement later tonight. The prevailing mood among EU leaders appears to be for a low-profile chairman rather than a more charismatic president with international connections. How will the new appointee measure up with other presidents, such as the President of the United States? David Grossman is...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
KINSHASA, Congo -- A U.N.-run radio station says a passenger plane overshot a runway in eastern Congo and landed in lava, injuring 20 people.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Is Congo’s President Joseph Kabila flirting with dictatorship? AFTER 32 years of rapacious dictatorship under Mobutu Sese Seko and nearly a decade of chaos following his demise in 1997, Congo’s elections in 2006 marked the first time the people of the former Belgian colony had gone to the polls in a free and fair vote for four decades. It was a rare moment of hope for a better future....
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord's Resistance Army leaders with a series of brutal crimes they are accused of perpetrating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.
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