EIGHT people died and 44 were injured yesterday during an attempted jail break in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Sud-Kivu province, police said.

FRANCE and the Netherlands reacted swiftly on Saturday to a newly signed peace accord in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the latter announcing millions of euro in aid to help stabilise the troubled east.

RWANDAN Hutu rebels killed 19 civilians late last week in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Sud-Kivu province, a local government official said yesterday.