Claude says he is afraid he will soon be dead -- either from starvation or violence -- as he waits at a food tent in a camp ...

The local prison was also emptied, they said. Sign up here. The M23 rebels have been moving south towards Uvira, which shares a lake border with Burundi, since they seized the provincial capital ...

Some 120km from Bukavu in Uvira, panic-stricken residents shared their fears with The EastAfrican. Micheline: My biggest fear is rapeMicheline Mauwa, 47, is no stranger to conflict, having been a ...

The rebels captured Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in late January and took Bukavu on 16 February. Now, they appear to be heading for Uvira, a strategic city on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. By 18 ...

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 27 (Reuters) - Four people protesting against a United Nations peacekeeping mission were electrocuted on Wednesday in the Congolese city of Uvira when ...

Plausible scenarios or combinations thereof, can be sketched from the debates by Congolese professionals and activists on the ground in Goma, Bunia, Bukavu, Uvira, Kisangani, Katanga, and Kinshasa ...

“The person responsible is a drunken member of the FARDC (DR Congo armed forces) who opened fire on at least 20 civilians who crossed his path,” a prosecutor in Uvira said. Captain Dieudonne K ...

Uvira (Fides News Agency) – Blessed are the Xaverian missionaries killed out of an odium fidei during the Mulelist uprising against the Congolese Government. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, ...

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Uvira was robbed yesterday, February 20, according to a statement issued by the diocese of the city in South Kivu currently being conquered by the M23.

Recent protests in Butembo-Beni, Goma, Bukavu and Uvira turned into deadly attacks against the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).

A former bouncer in a bar in the Congolese town of Uvira, Claude said he fled as violence erupted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), triggered by the Rwanda-backed M23's rapid ...

He is one of thousands of Congolese refugees caught between a brutal war over the border and drastic cuts to international food aid. A former bouncer in a bar in the Congolese town of Uvira ...