http://www.news24.com/Tags/Topics/central africa Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:37:28 +0200 More than a dozen advocacy groups have urged the first US special representative to push for democracy and good governance in the DRC. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/US-envoy-urged-to-push-DRC-governance-20130619 Authorities in Chad have arrested a suspected member of a poaching gang accused of slaughtering nearly 200 elephants and killing five Cameroonian park ranger, an official says. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Chad-Suspect-held-for-poaching-20130618 A crucial preliminary hearing of evidence against an African warlord known as "The Terminator" has been pushed back to give prosecutors more time to prepare their case, the ICC says. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/ICC-delays-warlord-pre-trial-hearing-20130618-3 Sixteen Rwandan students are seeking asylum in Uganda, saying they are the victims of harassment by security officials back home for refusing to join the Congolese rebel group M23. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Rwandan-students-seek-asylum-over-M23-20130617 At least 16 people have been killed during clashes between rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army and villagers in Central African Republic. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/LRA-raid-leaves-least-16-dead-20130616-2 The 15-country Southern Africa Development Community has called on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to delay elections scheduled for 31 July. http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/SADC-calls-on-Mugabe-to-delay-vote-20130615 A rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now accusing the government of refusing to negotiate at recently-reconvened peace talks in Uganda's capital. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/M23-rebels-Govt-has-broken-off-talks-20130614 An armed tribal movement burned 16 people alive in a house during a 1 June attack on a village in the Katanga province of the DRC, the UN sources say. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Armed-group-burns-16-alive-in-DRC-20130613-3 The new military chief of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC vowed to crack down on killing, rape and forced recruitment by armed groups terrorising the country. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/UN-chief-vows-crackdown-on-atrocities-20130612 A total of 93 charges of misconduct have been brought against members of South Africa's peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the defence department says. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/SANDFs-DRC-force-facing-93-charges-20130612 German prosecutors have charge 3 with membership of ethnic Hutu militia involved in Congo killings. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Germany-charges-3-Hutu-militiamen-20130611 Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed the United Nations' top envoy in Iraq as the new special representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Mission-in-DRC-led-by-top-envoy-20130610 The M23 militia in DRC is attempting to recapture a group of 53 child soldiers who recently escaped the militia's grasp. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/DRC-rebels-hunting-escaped-child-soldiers-20130610 Fighters loyal to the Central African Republic's new government killed five rebels near the Cameroon border, a military source says, adding that their leader escaped the weekend attack on horseback. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Central-African-forces-kill-five-rebels-20130610 A UN-mandated diamond watchdog has confirmed the Central African Republic's suspension from global certified diamond trading after a coup in March. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Kimberley-Process-upholds-CAR-suspension-20130607 Central African Republic's toppled president Francois Bozize has abandoned his attempt to fly to South Africa from his home in exile in Cameroon. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Bozize-drops-bid-to-fly-to-SA-20130607 A new date has not been set for a regional summit to assess Zimbabwe’s readiness for general elections, SA’s International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabana says. http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/No-date-yet-for-Zimbabwe-summit-20130607-3 DRC’s M23 rebels will send a delegation this weekend to resume peace talks with the government that were suspended in early May, an official says. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/M23-say-will-resume-talks-with-govt-20130606-3 Eleven years after an eruption of Mount Nyiragongo devastated the sprawling city of Goma, eastern DRC's armed conflict is preventing scientists from predicting the volcano’s next explosion. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/DRC-conflict-masks-deadly-volcano-threat-20130605 The UN's deputy emergency relief co-ordinator says a hospital in eastern DRC that helps victims of sexual violence is now treating 300 rape survivors a month. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/DRC-treats-300-rape-victims-a-month-20130605