The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor tells the BBC he believes the net is closing around Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda.

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Congo warlord’s ‘days numbered’

A Congolese airline is to destroy six planes that belonged to the suspended airline company from which they were formed, its chief executive says.

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DR Congo planes to be destroyed

At least 26 people have been killed in recent attacks by Rwandan FDLR rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese army says.

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Rwandan rebels ‘kill 26 in DRC’

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s supreme court on Friday upheld President Joseph Kabila’s victory following a contested election, raising fears of more violence in sub-Saharan Africa’s largest nation because the main opposition candidate already has rejected the results showing he placed second. The November election was only the second democratic vote in Congo’s 51-year history, and the first to be organized by the Congolese government rather than by the international community. Observers have expressed concern about irregularities, saying voter turnout results were impossibly high in some districts. Read full article > >

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Congo court upholds president’s victory; opposition candidate previously has rejected results

The war crimes trial of former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba is to start at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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Bemba war crimes trial to start

The former Congolese rebel leader, Jean Pierre Bemba, is to go on trial in The Hague.

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Ex DR Congo rebel leader trial begins

Thirty Congolese women on the border of Angola and Congo were held in a dungeonlike prison and systematically raped by uniformed men, according to U.N. officials.

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U.N.: Congo women imprisoned, raped