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Congo Reinstates Death Penalty in Bid to Tackle Escalating Violence and Militancy

Congo has lifted a more than two-decade-old moratorium on the death penalty as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks in the country, according to a justice ministry statement released on Friday. The statement, dated earlier this week, said the ban

March 16, 2024

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Cameroonian becomes DR Congo’s second virus patient

Democratic Republic of Congo Health authorities confirm that a second person has tested positive for coronavirus in the country, and is being treated in hospital: The patient is a 46-year-old Cameroonian national who lives in DR Congo with this family. He returned

March 13, 2020

Africa

DR Congo president in Kabila power-sharing deal

DR Congo’s recently elected president, Felix Tshisekedi and his predecessor Joseph Kabila on Wednesday said they had decided to form a coalition government following talks. Despite Tshisekedi’s election — the first peaceful transition of power since the Democratic Republic of Congo gained

March 7, 2019

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President Joseph Kabila to stand down ahead of election

DR Congo President Joseph Kabila has announced a successor that will stand as a candidate for his ruling coalition in the December 2018 presidential election. The candidate is in the person of Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, a former minister of interior. His nomination

August 8, 2018

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DRC: 15 United Nations peacekeepers dead, dozens hurt in ‘huge attack’

KINSHASA, Congo — In the deadliest single attack on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in nearly 25 years, rebels in eastern Congo killed 15 peacekeepers and wounded over 50 others in an assault on their base that was launched at nightfall and

December 10, 2017

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