Tag: DRC
DRC: free deliveries, progress towards universal health coverage
This is a first in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the formalization of free childbirth as part of the implementation of universal health coverage. The ceremony was launched this Tuesday,…
DRC: European Commissioner for Justice wants to relaunch dialogue between Kinshasa and Kigali at UN
Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice, is staying in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from September 4 to 8, 2023. On Monday, in Kinshasa, he met with opposition figures…
The DRC wants to speed up the withdrawal of Monusco
A few days before the holding of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo asks the Security Council to accelerate the withdrawal…
DRC: heavy toll in Goma after the repression of a demonstration
In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Goma, according to sources contacted by RFI, at least forty people were killed and many others injured, in the repression…
DRC: at least ten dead on the sidelines of a demonstration against Monusco in Goma
At least ten people were killed this Wednesday, August 30 in the morning on the sidelines of a demonstration in Goma, in the east of the DRC. The demonstrators, belonging…
DRC and Burundi sign security cooperation agreement
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi signed a defense and security memorandum of understanding on Monday (August 28th) following a 48-hour working visit by Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye…
DRC: army officers suspected of involvement in illicit mineral trafficking
According to concordant sources, Congolese General Smith Gihanga Mutara was arrested in Kinshasa on Tuesday August 22, because the officer is cited in a case of illicit trafficking of minerals…
DRC: a report on subcontracting reveals colossal losses for the State
Eight billion US dollars escape the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the subcontracting sector, which the authorities want to make one of the main pillars of the economy, the…
In the DRC, Salomon Idi Kalonda, right arm of opponent Moïse Katumbi, in court
The trial began on Thursday before the Kinshasa military court, sitting in the Ndolo military prison where he is being held. Arrested by military intelligence at the end of May,…
DRC: reflection continues on the future of the state of siege in Ituri and North Kivu
There was no decision announced at the close, Wednesday August 16, of the round table on the evaluation of the state of siege in the provinces of Ituri and North…