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At least 130 people were killed in a boat accident in Bandundu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo , a local official told Xinhua on Thursday.

One hundred thirty-eight people have died in a boat accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to provisional police reports.

Some 138 people have been killed in a boat accident in Democratic Republic of Congo, police said on Thursday.

St Wendel, Germany- High over St Wendel in the western German state of Saarland stands a mission house of the Steyler Order where missionaries who have spent their lives preaching the gospel and helping people in the far reaches of the world return for their retirement.

Hours earlier, in an unrelated incident, armed men briefly forced the city's three main opposition broadcasters off the air, according to local journalists and news reports.

By Risdel Kasasira & Charles Mwanguhya Posted Thursday, July 29 2010 at 00:00 In Summary The Group The Allied Democratic Forces is a rebel group opposed to the Ugandan government.

Kinshasa - Armed men cut television and radio signals owned by the opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one media head in Kinshasa said Wednesday.

A dramatic and concerning situation emerges from an inquiry carried out by a don Guanella Mobile Team, involving 315 young girls living on the streets in the district of Tshangu, a district which starts in the suburbs of Kinshasa and reaches the savannah.

The Congo is a difficult place to be born, or borne - as in utero . Dangerous for the baby, dangerous for the mother and dangerous for the first five years of life - a dismal mortality rate shared with many nations in sub-Saharan Africa.

Esperance Nantore smiled shyly as she accepted a certificate for being June's star employee at Safi Sana , a business in which the majority of workers are refugees.

GW cites violations listed in the 2009 UN Group of Experts report [text, PDF] to support the legal complaint.

The ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe failed to make it on to the agenda of the Africa Union summit this week, despite the political stalemate that has left the country in limbo.

The Indian Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo is in contact with the central African nation's government to secure the release of an Indian pilot taken hostage by rebels.

Lobby group Global Witness said on Monday it was taking the British government to court for failing to refer companies trading in Congo 'conflict minerals' to the U.N. sanctions committee.

Offers of peace by senior officials of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda , which seemingly ended a long-standing separatist conflict in northern Angola, were made without the knowledge or consent of its president, Henrique N'Zita Tiago, and exiled leaders in France describe the olive branch as a "coup d'A©tat". "We did not ...

Human rights-conscious smartphone owners can breathe a sigh of relief now that a new U.S. law requires publicly-traded companies and electronics corporations to reveal whether or not they use "conflict-free" minerals.

The Pioneer Park Picture Show begins Friday July 30th and takes place every Friday throughout August.

By releasing Congo militia leader Thomas Lubanga, the ICC shows it is operating as a court should: according to the law Thomas Lubanga at the international criminal court.

The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme , Josette Sheeran, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Antnio Guterres, said they hoped more people displaced by years of conflict in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo will soon find the security they need to return to their homes and re-start farming their land.

Grace Lagulu was 15 years old when she was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army.