Congo-Kinshasa : Lubanga Witness Says He Was Paid U.S. $200 To Tell Lies (AllAfrica.com)

A witness today told the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga that intermediaries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave him US$200 as payment for convincing his nephew to give false testimony against the accused.

Congo-Kinshasa : More Than 8,000 Women Raped Last Year by Combatants in Eastern Region - UN (AllAfrica.com)

The number of women raped in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where sexual violence committed by warring factions has reached endemic proportions, topped 8,000 last year, according to fresh estimates released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today.

Congo-Kinshasa : Judges Fault Prosecutors As Second Defense Witness Appears (AllAfrica.com)

As the second defense witness in the Lubanga trial started testifying on Tuesday this week, judges berated the prosecutors for failing to tell the accused’s lawyers some important information they had collected about two of the defense witnesses in a timely way.

Congo-Kinshasa : (AllAfrica.com)

If the gorillas inhabiting the Kahuzi Biega National Park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a World Heritage site and ecological sanctuary, could read, the bible may have come handy. Not the bible of God, mind you, but that of the free marketers religion: The Wall Street Journal.

Congo-Kinshasa : Lubanga's Lawyers Will Ask Judges To Discontinue Case (AllAfrica.com)

Thomas Lubanga's defense case opened this week with his lawyers declaring that prosecution witnesses were coached, and that the witnesses who claimed to have been child soldiers never were.

Congo-Kinshasa : Witness - My Son Was Never A Child Soldier (AllAfrica.com)

The first witness to appear for the Thomas Lubanga defense told court today that although his son never served in any military group, an organization which had promised to give the boy a job later started passing him off as a former child soldier.

Namibia/Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Halts Namibia's World Cup Dreams (AllAfrica.com)

Windhoek — Namibia's national Under 20 women's football team needed at least a 2-0 victory against the Democratic Republic of Congo to progress to the final qualification stage of the Women's 2010 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

African Nations Cup final (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)

Factbox on Sunday's African Nations Cup final between Egypt and Ghana in Luanda.

Winners of the African Nations Cup  (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

A list of the previous winners of the African Nations Cup:

Factbox on Sunday's African Nations Cup final (Ghanaweb.com)

* Sunday’s final is the 27th of the continental championship, first played in 1957 in Sudan when Egypt won. * It will be an eighth Nations Cup final for both Egypt and Ghana. Defending champions Egypt have won a record six times, with Ghana winning four.