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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The UN peacekeeping force has temporarily suspended its operations in the eastern city of Butembo, where citizens staged bloody protests last month against the blue helmets who they accused of

Burundian troops began deploying Monday in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to help enforce a peace initiative backed by a seven-nation regional bloc, the DRC's military said.

A horrifying new research claims that since 1999, UN soldiers from 12 different nations have fathered and then abandoned thousands of children in the impoverished Democratic Republic of the Congo. The study also says that troops and police working under a UN mandate in the war-torn country molested children, raped young women, and exchanged food for'survival sex.' According to the research, one victim was just eleven years old when her aunt sold her to UN forces, who loaded her with al...

One thing we certainly will share is the strong opposition from global NGOs and negative reporting from a section of the Western press

Blinken is scheduled to discuss governance, peacekeeping, and Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina’s trial.

Blinken is scheduled to discuss governance, peacekeeping, and Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina’s trial.

On the eve of his visit to Rwanda on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said his country is “concerned” by “credible” reports that Rwanda is supporting rebels in eastern Democratic Republic…

Rebels killed 15 civilians and one army captain in recent attacks on villages in eastern DR Congo's Ituri province, a military officer said Sunday, raising an earlier reported death toll of 10.

There is an opportunity to impose accountability on the beneficiaries of DRC’s looting machine

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in South Africa on Sunday to kick off a three-country tour that will also take him to DR Congo and Rwanda, aimed at "developing a strategy to counter Russian…