| WEST AFRICA: Another stab at the "resource curse" |
 DAKAR, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - In Africa billions of dollars from oil, gas and mining revenues go missing, leaving populations dependent on international assistance, according to a new report on natural resource use on the continent.
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| DRC: Violence forcing North Kivu civilians out of homes |
 KINSHASA, 1 July 2009 (IRIN) - Continuing clashes between armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have forced civilians to abandon their homes in North Kivu and affected aid operations, a UN official said.
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| DRC: Mass rape in Goma prison |
 KINSHASA, 24 June 2009 (IRIN) - Twenty female detainees in the central prison in Goma, a large town in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, were raped during a recent riot, officials have said.
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| DRC: Rebel activity halts exams for hundreds of children |
 KINSHASA, 23 June 2009 (IRIN) - Rebel activity in parts of eastern and northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced the postponement of secondary school leaving exams for hundreds of children, officials have said. At least 403,000 students nationally are expected to sit the exams.
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| DRC: MONUC sticks to its guns - analysis |
 KINSHASA, 22 June 2009 (IRIN) - Joint military efforts by the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the country’s ramshackle army to neutralize Rwandan Hutu-led militias have been criticized because of the worsening humanitarian crisis in the theatre of operations, the eastern Kivu provinces.
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| EAST AFRICA: Banana blight puts livelihoods at risk |
 KAMPALA-NAIROBI, 17 June 2009 (IRIN) - The bacterial banana Xanthomonas wilt disease will endanger the livelihoods of millions of East African farmers if left uncontrolled, according to specialists. First reported about 40 years ago in Ethiopia, BXW is endemic in most of Uganda, and has been reported in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Rwanda.
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| DRC: National deworming campaign under way |
 KINSHASA, 16 June 2009 (IRIN) - Medical teams in the Democratic Republic of Congo have begun to travel to the farthest-flung corners of the country in an effort to give 12.5 million children deworming drugs and vitamin A.
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| DRC-UGANDA: LRA reprisal attacks increase in the northeast |
 KINSHASA, 10 June 2009 (IRIN) - Civilians in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo villages are continuing to flee repeat reprisal attacks by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. The attacks have been provoked by ongoing anti-LRA operations by the DRC army in the region, according to locals.
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| DRC: Rape cases soar in South Kivu |
 KINSHASA, 3 June 2009 (IRIN) - There has been a marked increase in the number of rape cases being recorded in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) province of South Kivu, where Rwandan Hutu militia attacks against civilians have intensified, according to civil and humanitarian officials.
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| DRC: Thousands flee LRA attacks in northeast |
 KINSHASA, 29 May 2009 (IRIN) - Fresh attacks by Ugandan rebels in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo have displaced more than 12,000 more civilians, according to aid officials.
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