Kenyan Basketball Team Trains for FIBA Africa Zone 5 Qualifiers
The Kenya national Basketball team will be preparing for the FIBA Africa Zone Five contest later this month whose winner will represent the region at the Africa Nations Cup in the Democratic Republic of Congo in September.
Central Africa “Child Miners”: Glencore Allegedly Buys Copper From 10 Year Old Miners
Children as young as ten climb down hand dug shafts into the Tilwezembe mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with no protective equipment, to recover cobalt and copper.
Polls hold in DR Congo amid delays, violence
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo’s voters reportedly went to the polling stations yesterday to choose their leaders in elections marred by violence and logistical difficulties.
DR Congo assures foreign envoys on November polls
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on November 28 as planned, its foreign minister, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, assured members of the diplomatic corps accredited to Kinshasa yesterday.
Suspected gorilla traffickers arrested in DR Congo
(InformAfrica) — Two men suspected of running a baby gorilla trafficking ring have been arrested in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, conservation activists said Friday.
DR Congo colonel arrested for mineral trafficking
(InformAfrica) — Officials arrested a colonel in the Democratic Republic of Congo as he was smuggling a convoy of minerals in the east of the country, the army told AFP Wednesday.
48 rapes every hour in DR Congo
A study by US scientists has concluded that an average of 48 women and girls are raped every hour in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The study, in the American Journal of Public Health, found that 400,000 females aged 15-49 were raped over a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007. That rate is 26 times [...]
