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[Namibian]Congo have named a strong squad, which includes 14 foreign-based professionals, for their African Nations Cup preliminary qualifying match against Namibia....

[Namibian]Brave Warriors coach Ricardo Mannetti on Wednesday named a 25-man squad to face Congo in the first leg of their Afcon qualifying match in Windhoek on Saturday, 17 May....

[IRIN]Kinshasa -Some 60,000 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) nationals have returned over the past month from neighbouring Republic of Congo (RoC) as a result of actual or threatened deportation in an operation that has cost several policemen their jobs because of brutality. On 6 May alone, some 2,600 made the journey by boat....

[This Day]Former governor of Lagos State and one of the national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, yesterday said he was convinced that the ultimate objective of the Boko Haram sect was to destroy the spirit of the nation and set it against itself. He therefore called on all Nigerians, regardless of faith or political standing to partake in the campaign to find the abducted...

[State Department]Washington -Born in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, Adon Madi grew up and went to school in London, earning a university degree in economics in 2011. He could have stayed on in the United Kingdom and enjoyed the pleasures of having a high-paying, permanent job....

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he will meet with President Joseph Kabila. The two leaders are expected to discuss recent security gains against rebel groups in eastern Congo....

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is calling on Congolese President Joseph Kabila to respect his country's constitution and not run for a third term. The U.S. is pledging additional funding for elections and for helping to demobilize fighters in eastern provinces....

[New Era]Windhoek -Despite facing the daunting task of first negotiating their way past Congo-Brazzaville in the 2015 Confederations of African Football (CAF) Nations Cup preliminary round before probably taking on African Champions Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan in the group stages in pursuit of a place at the AFCON finals in Morocco, Brave Warriors coach Ricardo Mannetti is untroubled by the draw...

[State Department]A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rain forest has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness over the past decade....

[CAJ News]Bulawayo -IN a rare turn of events, President Robert Mugabe will officially open the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair after Congo Brazzaville President Dennis Sausso Nguesso canceled a visit to the country at the last minute....

At least 60 people were killed and some 60 others were injured when a freight train derailed in the southeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The accident occurred when the train was speeding too fast before turning around a bend close to the Katongola bridge, which is near the station at Katongola, a town in the southern Katanga province....

DR Congo will have two representatives at the lucrative mini-league stage of the Orange CAF Champions League for the first time. Four-time winners TP Mazembe and AS Vita, champions in 1973 scrapped through to the last eight of the premier continental club championship....

The Security Council today extended for one year the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) – along with its Intervention Brigade – noting the need for the Mission to strengthen its support so the Congolese Government can address security challenges in line with the aims of a regional peace and security accord....

[ANGOP]Angola is attending the 11th session of the Committee of Ministers of the International Conference on the Basins of the Congo, Ubangui and Sangha Rivers (CICOS) that opened Thursday in Brazzaville....

[The Herald]Tendai Mugabe -The Republic of Congo's new Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Leonard Emile Ognimba, yesterday presented his credentials to President Mugabe at State House in Harare and pledged to enhance bilateral ties between Harare and Brazzaville. Ambassador Ognimba will be based in Pretoria, South Africa....

A total of 251 Congolese refugees returning to their country from a refugee camp in Uganda died on Saturday in a boat accident on Lake Albert, Congolese government spokesman Lambert Mende has said. North Kivu governor Julien Paluku said the search will continue to find other bodies. He said 251 bodies have been recovered out of 292 that were onboard the ill-fated boat....

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has informed Parliament that he has extended the employment of members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) for service in fulfilment of the international obligations of the Republic of South Africa towards the United Nations....

[ANGOP]Luanda -The Congo Foreign minister, Basile Ikouebe, Monday in Luanda spoke of the need for a more dynamic Angola/Congo joint commission with a view to elevating the level of economic cooperation between the two countries....

[ANGOP]The president of Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, will arrive on Monday in Luanda for an official visit to Angola as a result of an invitation from the Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, as part of reinforcement of friendship and cooperation between the two countries and people....

AS Vita of DR Congo and CS Sfaxien of Tunisia kept alive hopes of progressing to the group-stage of the champions league on a weekend of some shock wins as first leg matches of the 1/8th round lit the African football scene at the weekend. Holders Al-Ahly and four-time winners, TP Mazembe suffered losses away from home....