Congo fired its transport minister tonight as emergency workers extinguished the last flames from a plane crash which killed at least 50 people, finding still more bodies in the wreckage.

At least 25 people were killed when a cargo plane crashed in Congo’s capital seconds after take-off.

Three mass graves have been discovered in an eastern area of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the DRC formerly controlled by a rebel warlord that has been the scene of recent clashes, the United Nations said today.

A POWERFUL earthquake toppled homes onto children in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, killing at least two people in a region already beset by war, poverty and volcanoes.

A powerful earthquake toppled homes onto children in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, killing at least two people in a region already beset by war, poverty and volcanoes.