LATEST: Six Congolese rangers have been found safe in a large forest reserve a day after a security station was attacked by militia, but an American journalist and at least three other security guards remain missing, a local official said.

Another 38 probable mass graves have been found in central Congo, where violence between troops and militia members has killed thousands of people since August, the UN said.

More than 31 million people were displaced in their own countries last year, a report has found.

Forty-two policemen have been decapitated after being ambushed by a militia group in Congo, officials report.

Congolese war lord Bosco Ntaganda pleaded not guilty to crimes including the rape of child soldiers in a campaign of pillage and murder in north-east Congo’s Ituri province in the early-2000s.

Sweeping fuchsia landscapes filmed by the military in the Congo in World War 2 have made Richard Mosse famous in the art world.

United Nations envoy Mary Robinson believes there is a chance to solve the underlying causes of decades of violence in Congo and “stop it for good”.

The International Criminal Court has acquitted a Congolese militia leader of all charges of leading fighters who destroyed a strategic village in eastern Congo in 2003, hacking to death and raping some 200 people including women and children.

The UN chief says African warlord Joseph Kony’s militia group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, killed 39 civilians this year in the Congo and the Central African Republic.

Rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo, believed to be backed by neighbouring Rwanda, have entered the city of Goma and seized the international airport, a spokesman for the group said today.

Congolese security forces have reportedly killed at least 24 people and detained dozens in attacks to quell dissent over the much-criticised re-election of President Joseph Kabila.

Police in Congo’s capital prowled opposition neighbourhoods, rounding up young men who were seen being dragged out of their homes and shoved into waiting cars, a day after the government announced that the country’s opposition leader had lost the disputed presidential election.

At least 18 people have been killed and 100 seriously injured in election violence in Congo, with most of the deaths caused by troops loyal to President Joseph Kabila, Human Rights Watch said today.

At least five people have been killed on election day in the DR Congo in two separate clashes.

The International Criminal Court ruled today that the trial of an alleged Congolese warlord should resume again after a three-month suspension.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army needs more international help to prevent brutal rebel attacks such as the recent mass gang-rape, a government spokesman said today.

Rebels attacked a UN peacekeeping base in eastern Congo today killing three Indian soldiers and wounding seven others.

Film star and activist Angelina Jolie visited the International Criminal Court trial of a Congolese warlord charged with using child soldiers today.

Children as young as nine were snatched from the streets and trained to kill by Congo warlord Thomas Lubanga, the International Criminal Court’s historic first trial heard today..

The Rwandan army has arrested Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, a military spokesman said today.

Rwandan forces, invited by long-time enemy Congo to deploy up to 2,000 troops, were there to observe, not to fight Hutu militias, the government said.

More than 1,500 Rwandan troops crossed into eastern Congo, joining Congolese forces in an effort to oust the Hutu rebels who participated in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, officials said today.

Actress Mia Farrow appealed today for the world to stop the rape of women and girls in eastern Congo, which she described as “one of the worst situations I have ever encountered in my life”.

Belgium is making a renewed push to convince its European Union counterparts to send peacekeepers to bolster the UN force in eastern Congo.

A Congolese journalist working for a UN radio station has been murdered outside his home in unstable eastern Congo, officials said.

Surrounded by insurgent fighters, the leader of Congo’s rebels held his first public rally today in newly conquered territory, telling the few thousand people who showed up “not to be afraid”.

Thousands of new UN peacekeeping troops should arrive in Congo within weeks, it was announced today.

Rebel forces said they were pulling back from a fleeing Congo army today to allow peace talks.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s main rebel leader today promised his support of a ceasefire and UN efforts to end the fighting.

Trócaire has called on the UN and the EU to do more to help Congolese refugees.

Food supplies were delivered across rebel-held areas of eastern Congo today for the first time in weeks.

Tensions escalated in war-battered eastern Congo today after Angola announced it was sending troops to aid government forces.

The United Nations’ most powerful body is close to approving 3,000 more peacekeeping troops for war-torn areas of eastern Congo, diplomats said today.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate ceasefire today to urgently help “at least 100,000 refugees” cut off by fighting in rebel-held areas in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A cholera outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp spread to eastern Congo’s provincial capital of Goma, increasing fears of an epidemic amid a tense stand-off between government troops and rebels.

African leaders grappled today with a long-simmering crisis in Zimbabwe and a new humanitarian catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Doctors are treating dozens of cholera cases at a refugee camp just outside Congo’s eastern provincial capital of Goma.

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo fought pro-government militiamen for a second day in the town of Kiwanja today, forcing thousands to flee.

UN aid convoy delivered vital medical supplies to Congo refugees today for the first time since fighting began weeks ago.

The first humanitarian convoy to go behind rebel lines since violence erupted in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo more than two months ago set off today.

International envoys converged on eastern Congo to help end some of the worst violence in years as thousands of anxious, hungry refugees struggled to get home amid a fragile ceasefire.

The top United Nations envoy to Congo warned that renewed fighting in the east had heightened ethnic tensions and could lead to the renewal of a wider conflict in central Africa.

Fighters loyal to a failed presidential candidate clashed with army forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa today, UN officials and witnesses said.

The European Union plans to pull its peacekeepers out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on schedule, despite heightened tension over the upcoming results of key elections, senior officials said today.