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DR Congo arrests suspected killers of Italian ambassador

January 19, 2022 Geraldine Boechat 0

Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced Tuesday that they have arrested suspected perpetrators of the attack in which Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio […]

Rwandans refractory to Covid vaccine return home

January 14, 2022 Steven Addamah 0

The hundred or so Rwandans who had arrived in recent days in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claiming to be fleeing the anti-Covid vaccination […]

DRC: Nearly 400 extrajudicial executions in November 2021

January 6, 2022 Geraldine Boechat 0

Nearly 400 extrajudicial executions were recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in November, more than 10% of them committed by Congolese security forces, with […]

Several dead and wounded in a suicide attack on Christmas Day in Beni

December 26, 2021 Geraldine Boechat 0

A suicide bomber detonated his bomb on Christmas Day in Beni, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing seven people and wounding 20, […]

‘Congo hold-up’: Former President Kabila threatens to file a complaint

December 24, 2021 Geraldine Boechat 0

Lawyers of former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila announced Thursday that their client “reserves the right to file a complaint” against the media […]

Nigeria destroys one million doses of expired covid vaccine

December 23, 2021 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Nigeria’s health authorities destroyed more than a million doses of expired coronavirus vaccine in Abuja on Wednesday. A move aimed at reassuring a wary public. […]

Gunmen attack UN convoy in DRC

December 10, 2021 Geraldine Boechat 0

Three staff members of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) were injured on Wednesday when their convoy was attacked by gunmen in the Eastern Democratic Republic […]

DRC: Former minister Willy Bakonga released after 7 months in prison in Kinshasa

November 29, 2021 Geraldine Boechat 0

The former minister of Education of the Democratic Republic of Congo Willy Bakonga, sentenced in March to three years in prison for “money laundering”, was […]

Double attack in Uganda: Five suspects shot dead by the police

November 19, 2021 Steven Addamah 0

Ugandan police announced Thursday that they have shot dead five suspects and arrested 21 people as part of the investigation into a recent double suicide […]