Democratic Republic of the Congo
DR Congo Anti-Government Protests Banned
Mr Kabila (C) was supposed to step down at the end of 2016 but the vote to replace him was not held Police have banned...
Kabila Appoints Bruno Tshibala As PM For DR Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has appointed Bruno Tshibala as the new prime minister of the...
DR Congo PM Resigns Under Power-Sharing Deal With Opposition
Congolese Prime Minister Samy Badibanga formally resigned on Friday, two days after President Joseph Kabila pledged to...
DR Congo PM ‘steps Down’ As Part of Kabila Deal
Democratic Republic of Congo Prime Minister Samy Badibanga has handed in his resignation as part of a deal brokered by...
Bodies of Slain UN Experts Flown Home From DR Congo
The United Nations said Wednesday that the bodies of two of its researchers, found in a mass grave in the Democratic...
DR Congo President Kabila Warns Against Foreign Meddling
The Democratic Republic of Congo will not tolerate any foreign interference in the country's electoral process,...
DR Congo President Warns Against Foreign Interference
The Democratic Republic of Congo will not tolerate any foreign interference in the country’s electoral process,...
DR Congo’s Kabila To Name New PM This Week
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila on Wednesday pledged to appoint a new prime minister in the next...
UN Finds 13 More Mass Graves In DR Congo’s Kasai Region
DR Congo's army has been fighting a militia group in the central Kasai region The UN has said it has found 13 mass...
DR Congo Opposition Piles Pressure On Kabila With Strike Over Election Delays
Congolese police deployed heavily across the capital Kinshasa on Monday as opposition calls for a general strike after...
Pope Francis Calls For Peace In DR Congo
Pope Francis on Sunday called for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, urging an end to the bloodshed in the...
UN Renews Smaller DRC Peacekeeping Force
The United Nations Security Council has renewed the mandate of the peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of...
UN Votes To Scale Down Mission
The UN Security Council has voted to cut the size of Monusco, its largest and most expensive peacekeeping mission,...
UN Renews Smaller DR Congo Peackeeping Force
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Friday to renew the mandate of the peacekeeping force in the...
ICC Prosecutor Warns On Spiralling DR Congo Violence
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda warned Friday against spiralling violence in the volatile...
DR Congo Tribal Rebellion
Beheadings, mass graves, kidnapped foreigners, child soldiers: a tribal insurrection in the Democratic Republic of...
DR Congo Opposition Calls ‘ghost Town’ Protest As Crisis Grows
The Democratic Republic of Congo's opposition have called for a stay-home stoppage for Monday to force President Joseph...
DR Congo Probes Killing of UN Researchers
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday they have launched a probe into the killing of two UN...
UN Experts ‘found Dead’ In DR Congo
Two UN experts who were missing in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been found dead, officials say. The bodies of...