central Africa

The number of people known to have died in a train accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 75. The train derailed and fell into a ditch in the south-eastern village of Buyofwe on Thursday. It was a freight service but carried hundreds of stowaways. The information …

Ukraine is to withdraw all of its forces from UN peacekeeping missions in Africa and Europe so they can be redeployed to fight invading Russian troops at home. Its biggest mission was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where about 250 Ukrainian troops had been serving. They will soon leave …

Militiamen have killed 18 civilians who had sought refuge in a church compound in eastern Congo, a witness and a local human rights groups said on Wednesday. The attack took place early on Tuesday in Banyali Kilo, a district in the conflict-riven Ituri province, as the victims slept in church …

Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba, has carried out a cabinet reshuffle, according to a decree read on national television by Prime Minister Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda on Tuesday. This new government is mainly marked by changes in the Ministers of National Defense and Foreign Affairs. President Ali Bongo entrusted the …

A commemorative monument to the 107 people killed in explosions in an army base in Equatorial Guinea last year is due to be unveiled later during a religious service. The mass in memory of those who died will be held near where the explosions started in the capital, Bata. Last …

A Congolese man, originally from South Kivu, recently married three twins. He first fell in love with Natalie, whom he met on the Internet before falling in love with his other two sisters without realizing it. The triplets look alike like drops of water.

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has temporarily removed control of a huge copper and cobalt mine from its Chinese owners. The court appointed a temporary administrator from state miner Gecamines to run China Molybdenum’s Tenke Fungurume mine amid a dispute between the shareholders over reserves of copper …

Armed men have kidnapped five people working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the north of Cameroon, local officials say. Those abducted are three aid workers of Chadian, Senegalese and French-Ivorian nationality, as well as two Cameroonian security guards. The abduction took place during an attack in Cameroon’s Far North …

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (Minusca) categorically rejected “the accusations of undermining state security” attributed to the four French soldiers, arrested on Monday February 21 by Central African security forces at the Bangui airport. The United Nations office in the Central African Republic …

Belgium’s prime minister has handed over an inventory of tens of thousands of artefacts looted from the former Belgian Congo to his Congolese counterpart. Alexander De Croo gave the catalogue to Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde in a ceremony at the museum where the items are held in Brussels. Mr Sama Lukonde …