Two Chinese and a Congolese official sentenced to 10 years in prison for pimping
Two Chinese nationals and a Congolese official were sentenced to ten years in prison for organizing a pimping ring in Kinshasa involving Chinese women. Ye […]
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The Constitutional Court of the DRC withdraws from the Matata Ponyo case
The Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ruled on Monday in Kinshasa that it had no jurisdiction to try former Prime Minister […]
Egyptian construction giant Arab Contractors lands €110-m road construction project in DRC
The Arab Contractors, an Egyptian regional and massive construction and contracting company, has said it has been awarded a road construction contract worth €110 million […]
Congolese doctors return to work after 3 weeks on strike
The Congolese doctors’ unions invited on Wednesday all their members to return to work in the hospitals of the Democratic Republic of Congo paralyzed for […]
DRC: Felix Tshisekedi meets IMF Managing Director to negotiate new program
While a mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been in Kinshasa for more than a week, Kristalina Ivanova Gueorguieva, managing director of this […]
DRC: Two ex-rebels appointed as governors of North Kivu and Ituri
The names of the military governors of North Kivu and Ituri are finally known. They are expected to take office on Thursday, May 6, the […]
ICJ: Uganda rejects DRC’s “exorbitant” claims
War reparations are at the heart of the proceedings underway at the International Court of Justice since Tuesday. In 2005, the UN court found Uganda […]
DRC claims more than $13 billion from Uganda for bringing guilty of interference in the eastern DRC
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda are once again facing each other for ten days before the International Court of Justice. In 2005, […]
DRC: Dieudonné Kaluba Dibwa elected President of the Constitutional Court
Dieudonné Kaluba Dibwa was elected, as president of the Constitutional Court, Tuesday, April 20 by his peers to replace Benoit Lwamba who resigned in July […]
DRC: The tripartite meeting on the Grand Barrage de la Renaissance ended with no agreement
The tripartite meeting on the Grand Barrage de la Renaissance (GERD) ended on Tuesday, April 6 in Kinshasa. Scheduled to last two days, it lasted […]