The Congolese call it the road through hell. From Uvira in the north to Baraka, 60 miles south, it winds through some of the most dangerous and miserable territory in a country torn apart by ...

A local source told IRIN on Thursday that the RCD was "making progress" and heading to open the Uvira-Baraka road, which had been "impassable" for many months now due to ambushes by Mayi-Mayi.

13. MONUC-Pakbatt-3/VIII carried out a repair of the Uvira-Baraka road under the supervision of the local Engineer Officer. The road was eroded due to recent rains and was causing hindrance in ...

Among Che's would-be Congolese allies was the then 26-year-old Laurent Kabila, who he met in the Fizi Baraka mountains, now soaring up above me from the Ruzizi River Plain which empties into Lake ...

An RCD spokesperson said about 100 "enemy" had been killed and about 10 civilian bodies were counted on the road into Uvira.

So far, UNHCR has provided relief items to Caritas and ACOBAD in Uvira and to the Red Cross in Baraka, further south, where the vast majority of refugees in Tanzania - an estimated 150,000 - are ...

Uvira is located on Lake Tanganyika, from which a road leads to Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. The withdrawal of Burundian soldiers a few days after the fall of the city of Bukavu is said to have ...

An RCD spokesperson said about 100 "enemy" had been killed and about 10 civilian bodies were counted on the road into Uvira. Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s ...