Senior officials with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have concluded a visit to North Kivu to assess ongoing efforts to restore peace and stability in the province.

Senior officials with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have concluded a visit to North Kivu to assess ongoing efforts to restore peace and stability in the province.

Deaths continue to be recorded in Mbuji Mayi central prison, in Kasaï Oriental province. At least 26 prisoners died from severe and acute malnutrition in the prison since February 2008. Despite this, there are no specific measures being taken to ensure good conditions of detention in the prisons of Kasaï Oriental.

RSF has written an open letter to President Joseph Kabila, who begins a two-day state visit to France on 16 July 2008, voicing its concern about threats made recently against its partner organisation in Democratic Republic of Congo, Journalist en Danger (JED).

Mr. Ross Mountain, UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, and MONUC Force Commander General Babacar Gaye undertook a 24 hour evaluation mission to North-Kivu on 16 -17 July 2008.

The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that greater numbers of people fleeing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were stretching the agency's resources to the limit as thousands gather in camps in search of safety.

The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has completed construction on three training camps for Government forces, known as the FARDC, as well as roads, bridges and airfields in North and South Kivu provinces in the east of the country.

Violence and intimidation in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced at least 100,000 people to flee their homes in recent months, raising the number of displaced to more than half a million, and leaving the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) struggling to meet their needs.

Sixteen-year-old Mayi doesn't remember exactly when she was taken from the Togolese capital Lome to Congo's second city Pointe-Noire by her "guardian".

Ernestine Kayindo fled Goma town in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997 amidst fighting between the regular army and rebels of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (NCDP), a Tutsi armed group that is still active.

MONUC's five Military Engineering companies deployed in eastern DRC have greatly improved local infrastructure such as roads and airports, which not only supports MONUC's actions but boosts economic activity and and the "Stabilisation Plan" for the country.

Victims can present themselves and ask for reparations before the International Criminal Court (ICC) if they suffered a personal injury even if it was not direct, the Appeals Chamber ruled last week.

The following is an 11 July 2008 JED and RSF joint press release:

Deployed in Bas Congo province as reinforcements following the February/ March 2008 unrest, the MONUC Task Force has begun its redeployment to Kinshasa since 10 July last, as Bas Congo finds peace and security.

Bishop Nicolas Djomo of Tshumbe is the new president of the Congolese Bishops' Conference, succeeding Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa.

The Catholic Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo have said that it was time for the country to wake up and address the dream of a better Congo free of suffering.

The deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Filomena Delgado, over the weekend visited the district of Kuimba, northern Zaire province.

Dozens of children are languishing in adult prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern Ituri district, despite a legal prohibition, according to a UN official.

The countries sharing the Virunga park - home to the world's rare mountain gorillas - are in discussion to conserve biodiversity and support development objectives laid out in a 10-year Strategic Plan, RNA reports.

The Carter Center is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that the Democratic Republic of Congo will begin renegotiating critical mining contracts in mid-July[i] without policy or procedures to guide this process or indication of whether requisite expertise will be secured.

The bilateral cooperation in the Navy field between Angola and the Republic of Congo is "very positive", in the opinion of the commander of this sector of that country, Captain of sea and war Bouania Bea André, ANGOP learnt this weekend.

Mountain gorilla Safari holds her infant months before being killed in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Reporters Without Borders and its partner organisation in Democratic Republic of Congo, Journalist in Danger (JED), are relieved to learn that Mila Dipenge of privately-owned TV station Télé Kindu Maniema in Kindu, the capital of the eastern province of Maniema, was released at midday today.

MONUC received evidence, according to which, in mid-April 2008, right before the end of his service in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an officer of the Indian contingent commanding a blue helmets base in North-Kivu allegedly made a public statement in Kitchanga, in which he expressed his personal sympathy towards an armed group, the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), ...

An intense schedule of activities is underway here to mark the Year of St. Paul 2008-2009, which was inaugurated worldwide on June 29.