Mazembe clinch Champs League title | |
BBC News - November 8, 2009 | |
TP Mazembe of DR Congo defeated Heartland of Nigeria 1-0 in Lubumbashi on Saturday to win their third Champions League trophy. The home side clinched their third continental title on away goals after losing the first leg 2-1 last week. | |
TP Mazembe Win Champions League | |
Congo News Agency - November 7, 2009 | |
TP Mazembe have defeated Heartland of Nigeria 1-0 in Lubumbashi to win the Champions League. After losing 1-2 in in the first leg in Owerri last Sunday, Mazembe only needed a 1-0 score to clinch the Africa Champions League for the third time because of their away goal. | |
Human Rights Watch Chalks New Allegations Against Congo, Rwanda Troops | |
Congo News Agency - November 3, 2009 | |
Four days after Congo Government spokesman Lambert Mende lambasted Human Rights Watch about what he called “exaggerated” allegations on the situation in eastern Congo and the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) military operation (Kimia II) against the Rwandan Hutu militia (FDLR), the NGO responded with new allegations against the FARDC and their Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) allies in another operation (Umoja Wetu) against the FDLR earlier this year. | |
President Jacob Zuma to Co-Chair the 6th SA-DRC Bi-National Summit in Pretoria | |
dfa.gov.za - October 30, 2009 | |
South African President Jacob Zuma will, on 30 October 2009, co-chair the SA-DRC Bi- National Summit with his Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) counterpart, President Joseph Kabila at the Presidential Guest House in Pretoria. President Jacob Zuma will be supported by International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane and 11 other Government Ministers and Senior Officials. | |
CEEAC Summit Ends in Kinshasa | |
Congo News Agency - October 24, 2009 | |
The 14th summit of the Heads of States of the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) ended in Kinshasa on Saturday. President Idriss Deby Itno was named new Chairman of CEEAC, replacing President Joseph Kabila. | |
President Joseph Kabila to visit Zimbabwe | |
Xinhua - October 23, 2009 | |
Visiting Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced here on Thursday that President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will visit Harare in the coming days to mediate the crisis bedeviling the Zimbabwean government. | |
Real prospect of ending fighting in eastern DR Congo, says top UN envoy | |
UN News - October 16, 2009 | |
“There is now a real prospect that the conflicts that have long blighted the eastern Congo can be ended,” Alan Doss, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for DRC and head of the UN peacekeeping force there, told the Security Council. | |
Africa must have full Security Council representation - DR Congo tells UN Assembly | |
UN News - September 28, 2009 | |
“The present UN system does not correspond in its current concept to the hopes of its founders and to the letter of the Charter that its creation was able to inspire,” DRC Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Nwamba said as the Assembly entered the fifth day of its annual General Debate. | |
Clinton Pushes UN Resolution to Curb Violence Against Girls | |
VOA News - September 25, 2009 | |
Clinton says preventing the exploitation and marginalization of girls is no longer an afterthought but a core foreign policy objective of the United States, which is co-sponsoring a Security Council resolution on the issue next week. | |
SADC Leaders Open Summit in Kinshasa | |
VOA News - September 7, 2009 | |
Leaders from 15 southern African nations have opened two days of discussions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Political confrontations in Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Lesotho and eastern Congo are high on the agenda. |