Democratic Republic of the Congo

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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DR Congo President Warns Against Foreign Interference

The Democratic Republic of Congo will not tolerate any foreign interference in the country’s electoral process,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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UN Renews Smaller DRC Peacekeeping Force

The United Nations Security Council has renewed the mandate of the peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of...

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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,...

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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...

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ICC Prosecutor Warns On Spiralling DR Congo Violence

International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda warned Friday against spiralling violence in the volatile...

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DR Congo Tribal Rebellion

Beheadings, mass graves, kidnapped foreigners, child soldiers: a tribal insurrection in the Democratic Republic of...

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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...

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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...

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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...