Concern is mounting that British aid money may be funding programmes for police who are using rape as a tool of state-sanctioned torture against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Since 2006, Uganda discovered world class oil fields along its border with DRC.
The girl, Georgette, told the scientists it was called 'lesula,' but no one had heard of it nor did the animal look like anything found in the DRC.
The impetus for conflict minerals legislation stems from resource-fuelled conflicts in eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1994 and 2003, which reached near-genocidal proportions, claiming as many as 5 million lives.
An LRA spokesman told the BBC that it was difficult to prove the group was behind all the attacks in the DRC.
Deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rainforest, in the remote village of Opala, a team of researchers noticed a little girl with a strange-looking monkey on a leash in 2007.
Thousands of people displaced by the Lord's Resistance Army LRAA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are still afraid to return home, a UN spokesman said this week.
Here's the latest from Ryan: Izama says there's a crucial natural resource angle that's being overlooked, pointing out that Uganda recently discovered "significant deposits of oil" near its border with the DRC.
But in picking him, Mr Xi clearly endorses some of the things he stands for.Mr Liu used to work for the Development Research Centre (DRC), an official think-tank serving China's cabinet.
On the eve of the latest third plenum, held earlier this month, the Development Research Centre (DRC), a government think-tank, advertised an ambitious set of reform proposals, including an overhaul of China's inefficient state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
It was the Department of Defence's role to train them, to tell them where exactly they were going, and to give them a bit of cultural sensitivity.Of course, sometimes I have the instinct to step in but I can't, that is not my role.You mention openly crying interviewing women who were victims of gang rape and sexual assault in the DRC.
