Young people in both the Congos are alerting one another about the deadly risks of HIV/AIDS and how to prevent infection in an initiative supported by international and private sector partners. Nearly 250 students and teachers in the Republic of the Congo and from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo gathered recently at a conference in Brazzaville to expand the project.

The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has expressed concern over recent advances made by rebel troops and the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) into territory recently vacated by the Ugandan army.

The humanitarian situation in the region of Ituri, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) "remains worrying", the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the DRC reported on Tuesday, with an estimated 10,000 families having been displaced in the city of Bunia due to fighting in July and in the past couple of weeks.

Joseph Olenghankoy, president of the Forces of Innovation for Solidarity and Union (FONUS), a political party with disputed links to the government, has threatened to "break" the local media rights group Journalists in Danger (JED). He has also publicly criticised BBC correspondent Arnaud Zajtman for reporting JED's campaign to free jailed Achille Ekele N'Golyma, publisher of the satirical newspaper Pot-Pourri.

Fighting has intensified between Rwandan forces and ethnic Hutu Interahamwe rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a Rwandan official has said.