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

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government today refused rebel leader Laurent Nkunda’s demand for direct talks to solve the crisis in eastern Kivu province, where tens of thousands of desperate refugees were receiving international aid.

A United Nations official says 16 bodies and a black box have been recovered from the wreckage of a humanitarian aid plane that crashed in Congo.

An aid flight has crashed in Congo with all 17 on board feared dead.

Two earthquakes have struck in Africa, killing at least 26 people.

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.

Rwandan combatants attacked a village in eastern Congo today, killing 17 people, wounding 28 others and taking as many as a dozen people hostage, a local rights worker said, citing survivors’ accounts.

RWANDAN Hutu rebels operating in eastern Congo have executed, raped, beaten or kidnapped more than 1,500 civilians over the past year, according to a UN report released yesterday.

Rwandan Hutu rebels operating in eastern Congo have executed, raped, beaten or kidnapped more than 1,500 civilians over the past year, according to a UN report released today.

Rwanda has warned it will launch an attack “very soon” on Hutu rebels sheltering in east Congo – an ominous development that raised fears of renewed central African conflict.

Dozens of unknown assailants attacked a UN refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 150 Congolese refugees, witnesses and local officials said today.

Government forces recaptured the strategic Congo city of Bukavu today, ending a one-week takeover by renegade troops that triggered the biggest crisis yet to the African nation’s peace process.

UN forces opened fire on angry mobs, killing two people, as massive looting protests overran Congo’s capital today in outrage at the fall of an eastern border city to rebels.

UN troops shot and killed two protesters as angry mobs stormed their base in Congo’s capital Kinshasa today.

President Joseph Kabila declared a “general mobilisation” across Congo after an eastern border city fell to renegade commanders, and pledged Congo’s army would protect Africa’s third-largest nation.

RWANDAN militiamen massacred at least 10 farmers in a remote village in Congo, the latest violence reported in the country’s troubled east.

The United Nations and the Rwandan government today urged refugees from the volcano in eastern Congo to gather in approved camps, where aid agencies could deliver food, water and shelter - but most Congolese just want to go home.