Congo Reinstates Death Penalty After Over 20 Years Amid Militant Struggle
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has ended a moratorium on the death penalty to address violence and militant activity, as announced by the justice ministry […]
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Kagame and Tshisekedi Set to Confer on Eastern DRC Crisis
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has consented to hold discussions with Democratic Republic of the Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi regarding the ongoing crisis in Eastern Congo, […]
USAID declares collaboration to enhance the market for domestically cultivated rice in Eastern DRC
The United States Government (USG), via the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced a partnership with La Différence, a private firm in […]
Tension brews between Algeria, DRC over Rwanda visit
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s foreign ministry summoned Algerian ambassador to Kinshasa to ask for clarifications after Algeria’s chief of staff visited Rwanda. The […]
DRC: Security in capital beefed up after attacks on UN staff, Western embassies
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have beefed up security in a district of the capital city Kinshasa where UN buildings and foreign […]
U.S., Zambia, AFC Host PGI Forum to Strengthen Investment in Lobito Corridor
President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, Senior Advisor to President Biden, Amos Hochstein, and President and CEO of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), Samaila Zubairu, convened […]
DRC and China renegotiate mining ‘contract of the century’, thus averting relationship rift
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government has noted it had finally resolved the 16-year dispute over a controversial mining deal between it and China […]
Burundi closes its land borders with neighboring Rwanda indefinitely
Nothing goes well between Gitega and Kigali… Burundi announced mid-afternoon on Thursday January 11 that it was closing all its land borders with Rwanda, according […]
Three dead in a new attack attributed to the ADF in Uganda
An elderly woman and two children perished when suspected rebels from the Islamic State-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) set fire to their home in a […]
Twenty dead in a rebel attack in the west, according to the Burundian government
Twenty people, including 19 civilians, were killed in western Burundi, the government announced on Saturday, in an attack claimed by the RED-Tabara rebel group, which […]