The youngest of those freed from an Allied Democratic Forces camp is a girl aged just 14, Uganda's army says.
This is just the second time that DR Congo have reached the World Cup finals, sparking celebrations in Kinshasa.
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A pause in US foreign aid has "severely impacted" humanitarian efforts in conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, a senior UN official in the country has said. Bruno Lemarquis told reporters that ...
Football fans in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been waiting a long time to right the wrongs of their solitary World Cup campaign in 1974. That was the year US President Richard Nixon resigned ...