Democratic Republic of Congo

Sweden said on Aug. 8 that it was working to assist a Swedish-Turkish journalist detained in Spain after Ankara issued an international arrest warrant over alleged terrorism.

Hamza Yalçın was detained on Aug. 3 at Barcelona's El Prat airport and is being held while a court decides whether to extradite him or not, Spanish police told AFP.

Turkish police have reportedly determined that a ton of drugs seized from a ship in an operation off the Suez Canal belonged to Taliban. 

At least 15 people, including a child, drowned when an inflatable boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off Greece's Lesbos island, officials said on April 24.

Eight bodies were recovered in Greek territory and another seven in Turkish waters, a Greek coastguard official said. The boat is believed to have set sail from Turkey late on April 23.

Apple has announced that it will temporarily suspend buying hand-mined cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, less than a week after the publication of a Sky News investigation chronicling brutal “slave conditions” and child labor in cobalt mines there. Cobalt is one of the most precious minerals in the world for the tech industry.

BELGRADE - The cooperation between Serbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo needs to be intensified, in particular in the economy, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and DR Congo Deputy PM and FM Leonard She Okitundu agreed on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia wants to have even better relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo and will it work towards strengthening the cooperation further, in particular in the economy, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Monday, noting that the president of Congo was expected to visit Belgrade this year.

Serbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo enjoy friendly relations, the countries' foreign ministers and deputy prime ministers agreed on Friday in Belgrade.

During a joint news conference after his meeting with Leonard She Okitundu, Ivica Dacic said that Serbia and Congo support each other in international institutions.

A prototype vaccine for Ebola may be "up to 100 percent effective" in protecting against the deadly virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Dec. 23.

Antoine Kakule Kihumuledi longs for a car to transport his cocoa crop and, like fellow residents in the Beni region in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, he wants peace so he can pursue his dreams.

Kakule, 51, is a pioneer in cultivating cocoa in this area of Nord Kivu province, which has been ravaged by war and violence for two decades.

At least 34 civilians were killed Nov. 27 in a flare up of ethnic violence in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, following a week of soaring tensions.

"The provisional toll is 34 civilians killed," said local official Joy Bokele, referring to an attack by a Nande ethnicity militia on the Hutu village of Luhanga, AFP reported.