Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom body, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on Wednesday condemned the suspension of radio ‘’Liberté’’ and the arrest of 9 of its journalists in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The media freedom body, Committee to Protect Journalists, (CPJ) has called for the immediate release of two journalists in DR Congo. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – Daniel Ngoy Mulunda, chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) of DR Congo, has strongly rejected allegations of fraud and treachery raised by local and international observation missions on the conduct of the November 2011 general election in the country. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – DR Congo's private airline, Korongo Airlines, financed by Brussels Airlines and the Belgian industrial group Forrest International (GFI), will take off on 16 April with domestic flights, a statement from the airline made available to the press on Wednesday said in Brussels. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – DR Congo’s minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, on Thursday called for a joint investigation into a UN report on a human rights violations in the country. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has hailed the conviction by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of a former DR Congo warlord, Thomas Lubanga, describing it as "victory for international penal justice and child rights". Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Officer in charge of the Francophonie summit, Ousmane Paye, is expected on 20 March in Kinshasa, DR Congo, at the head of a delegation of the International Francophonie Organization to assess preparations for the XIV Francophonie summit, official sources in the DR Congolese capital said Monday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs, Didier Reynders will visit DR Congo from 26 to 28 March, according to an official statement issued on Friday in Brussels. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union Commissioner in charge of emergency humanitarian aid, Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva, on Monday began a five-day working visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during which she will have talks with members of the Congolese government. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - France and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they are ready to provide medical assistance to those injured in the Sunday's munitions dump blasts in Mpila, northeast of the Congolese capital, Brazzaville.Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The new UN peacekeeping operations chief, Hervé Ladsous, will from 24 to 28 January visit DR Congo, a UN official said in Kinshasa on Wednesday. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – French minister in charge of cooperation, Henri de Raincourt, on Thursday expressed his country's regret at the attack last Saturday in Paris on Léon Kengo Wa Dondo, the president of the DR Congo Senate. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The minister of information and spokesman of the DR Congo government, Lambert Mende, has said opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, who has proclaimed himself winner of the controversial presidential election, will not be allowed to take the oath Friday at the Kinshasa-based Stade des Martyrs, as he has planned. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Nigeria on Monday protested against the recent re-election of President Joseph Kabila. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgian Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, said he would not attend President Joseph Kabila's inauguration in Kinshasa, scheduled for Tuesday, 20 December. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – France on Monday called for dialogue to ease the post-electoral tension in DR Congo. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The first deaths have been recorded in DR Congo's post-election violence as police confirm that four people have been killed in the restive central African country and appeals pour in for restraint to avoid a full-blown conflict. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union on Saturday called for "calm and utmost restraint" in the Demoratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the wake of the announcement of provisional results of the 28 November presidential elections that have been rejected by the opposition. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - In the aftermath of the publication of the preliminary results of presidential elections in DR Congo on Friday, the US has urged the relevant Congolese authorities to complete the remaining steps in the electoral process "by proceeding with maximum openness and transparency". Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been declared winner of last Monday’s presidential election with nearly 49 per cent of the votes. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Incumbent Joseph Kabila is leading in DR Congo's presidential election, following the release of partial results by the electoral authorities. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – About 60,000 polling stations across the DR Congo were thrown open as early as 6.00 am local time with thousands of voters lining up to cast their votes in the country's general elections, PANA reported from here.Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Ahead of Monday's presidential and legislative polls in DR Congo, Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has called on stakeholders in DR Congo to ensure that the 28 Nov. general elections are 'free, fair and peaceful'. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A total of 252 Angolans repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as part of the process of voluntary repatriation, were resettled in their areas of origin, PANA learnt Thursday from an official source here. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Some 188 cases of human rights violations were recorded in DR Congo between 1 November 2010 and 30 September 2011, according to a report of the United Nations Human Rights Bureau published on Wednesday in Kinshasa. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, MrJean Ping, has said he has been reassured that presidential and parliamentary elections in DR Congo would go ahead on 28 November. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) is to send a 147-member election observer mission to DR Congo to supervise the 28 November presidential and parliamentary elections, according to a communiqué of the European Unon issued on Friday in Brussels. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - A total of 397 Angolan refugees will be repatriated next Friday from DR Congo during the official launch in Kimpese, in the Bas-Congo, of the voluntary repatriation of Angolan refugees living in DRC, according to a communiqué received by PANA on Wednesday. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The government and opposition in DR Congo (DRC) on Tuesday committed themselves to ensure peaceful and transparent elections, the vice-chairman of the Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC), Jacques Djoli, said on Tuesday. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The minister of foreign affairs of DR Congo (DRC), Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, has reiterated the determination of the government to stick to the 28 November parliamentary and presidential elections. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The President of Congo's Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), Etienne Tshisekedi, has embarked on a tour of Europe and Canada to persuade other opposition leaders to feature a single candidate (in him) against incumbent President Joseph Kabila in Congo's presidential polls 28 November. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – At least 300,000 Congolese civilians have weapons in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a report released by a research group in Brussels said on Monday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Eighty Belgian soldiers will go to the DR Congo on 15 October to organize a six-month training programme for the African country's rapid reaction battalion, according to a statement from the Belgian government Wednesday.Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Senate President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who is also the leader of the Union of Forces for Change (UFC), Leon Kengo wa Dondo, Saturday filed his nomination papers for November's presidential election.Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Independent Union of Magistrates in Congo (SYNAMAG) will Tuesday hold a protest demonstration in Kinshasa, the capital, to demand improvement in their working conditions, according to a statement issued Saturday in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The national football team of Angola will play its counterpart from DR Congo in a friendly match 27 August in Dundo, in the province of Lunda Norte, Angola. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – Congolese striker Romelu Lukaku, originally from Congo, has been hired by English premiership side Chelsea for 15 million euros, his manager, Herman Van Holsbeek, told the press Tuesday. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The poorest countries in the world spend significantly more on arms than on basic education of their citizens, according to the 2011 Global monitoring report on Education for All (EFA).Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Peace education alone will not prevent or resolve conflicts and other forms of violence in Africa, unless combined with a firm determination at the political level to tackle the main causes which are essentially economic, according to conclusions reached at the Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Lingering armed conflicts have kept 40 per cent of African children out of school, according to a global report released recently in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Grim statistics from the last 10 years of conflicts in Africa have highlighted the role that education can play in ensuring peace across the continent. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The world’s poorest countries spend more money on arms than education, according to the annual report on the Universal Initiative on Education for all. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) is to deploy observers to DR Congo for the country's presidential election 28 Nov., an EU statement said here Tuesday.Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The UN refugee agency has said 42,680 asylum seekers, out of the 43,708 in Burundi, are believed to be from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where insecurity has persisted for years.Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium will splash 1 million euros to finance observer missions for the presidential elections in DR Congo, scheduled for 29 November, the Belgian government disclosed here Friday in a communique.Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo's Opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) here Monday held a sit-in outside the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to demand the holding of free and transparent elections.Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The cholera epidemic which broke out in a suburb of DR Congo's capital, Kinshasa, has been spreading in the city with at least 10 deaths recorded since last March, the United Nations Office in charge of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Sweden has cancelled US$158 million of DR Congo’s debt, the chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of Sweden in Kinshasa, Mrs. Mette Sunnergren, announced on Monday.Full text...