BRAZZAVILLE, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - A Congolese journalist working for the private television station TPT faces a court appearance for 'incitement to revolt' in Pointe-Noire, the economic capital, his employers said Tuesday.

BRAZZAVILLE, July 15, 2008 (AFP) - HIV/AIDS tests and anti-malaria medication will be available free to children, official sources in Congo, Health Minister Emilienne Raoul announced Tuesday.

BRAZZAVILLE, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Protestors disrupted the burial of a Congolese former minister on Monday, hurling stones at mourners, because they believed the dead man had been 'possessed', witnesses said.

RUKWANZI ISLAND, June 4, 2008 (AFP) - The blood of countless fishermen stains the sand of this tiny island. Their crime? They were Ugandans living on top of an oil reserve wanted by both Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

ROME, April 29, 2008 (AFP) - The Italian parliament's first black member, Congolese-born Jean-Leonard Touadi, says he realises the 'symbolic value' of his new role but pleads for a lower profile.

'The ethnic and identity folklore surrounding my entry into parliament bothers me a bit,' said the 49-year-old Touadi, who has lived in Italy for nearly 30 years.

SHANGHAI, April 23, 2008 (AFP) - China Railway Group, the nation's largest construction firm, said Wednesday it had signed an agreement to invest in a 2.9-billion-dollar copper and cobalt mining project in Congo.

HUELVA, Spain, April 9, 2008 (AFP) - Recreativo Huelva have recalled former Colombian international Edwin Congo 10 weeks after leaving him without a club, the struggling Spanish first division side confirmed Wednesday.

PARIS, April 9, 2008 (AFP) - France's highest appeal court upheld a decision Wednesday to drop a probe targeting Congo's national police chief on charges of crimes against humanity over the massacre of around 350 refugees.

BRAZZAVILLE, March 21, 2008 (AFP) - Japan has donated 2.7 million euros (4.17 dollars) to the Republic of Congo for primary healthcare and education reforms, UNICEF said in a press release on Friday.

The money will go towards building and equipping 27 primary schools in the north and south of the country with desks, textbooks, running water and lavatories.

BRAZZAVILLE, March 18, 2008 (AFP) - Senior figures in former president Pascal Lissouba's party have asked the current President Denis Sassou Nguesso, to grant an amnesty to the exiled leader and his ministers.

Christophe Moukoueke, a deputy from Lissouba's former ruling social democratic UPADS party, made a direct appeal to Sassou Nguesso.