Tag: DRC
“We are in the case of arbitrary detention”
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Stanis Bujakera – correspondent for Young Africa and deputy publishing director of the Actualités.cd site – remains in detention. His request for provisional…
Jean-Marc Kabund, former leader of the presidential party turned opponent, sentenced to 7 years in prison
The former leader of the Congolese presidential party, Jean-Marc Kabund, prosecuted in particular for “ contempt of the head of state », was sentenced on September 13, 2023 to seven…
artisanal miners demonstrate in Kolwezi
Around 7,000 artisanal miners demonstrated this Wednesday in Kolwezi, the rich mining town in the Katanga region in the south of the DRC. Miners working within the perimeter of the…
DRC: authorities denounce “fake news” and manipulation in the investigation into the assassination of Chérubin Okende
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the authorities claim that the alleged report attributed to the ANR, which certain media including RFI and Jeune Afrique relayed, was a false document.…
DRC: third day of the trial of the soldiers prosecuted after the demonstrations of August 30 in Goma
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it was, yesterday Thursday, September 6, the third day of the trial of six soldiers of the Republican Guard (GR), including two senior…
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…