Congo DRC
2022 Aug 22 |
In Congo DRC new case of the Ebola virus was confirmed in in the city of Beni. Links: Congo DRC, Ebola |
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2022 Aug 25 |
In Congo DRC assailants believed to be members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) targeted a group of villagers from North-Kivu province that had crossed into neighboring Ituri province to look for arable land near the Ituri River. Over the next 5 days the suspected Islamist militants killed at least 40 civilians in a string of attacks on several villages. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Aug 30 |
In eastern Congo DRC suspected Islamist militants killed at least 14 civilians and kidnapped more than a dozen others in an attack in Ituri province. The army reportedly killed five fighters and rescued a five-year-old girl who had been kidnapped. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Sep 6 |
In Congo DRC at least one person was killed in the eastern city of Beni when shots were fired during another protest against the UN’s MONUSCO peacekeeping mission. Links: Congo DRC, Mad Crowd |
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2022 Sep 10 |
In Congo DRC a small plane carrying three crew and some cargo failed to reach its destination of Kasese airport. Links: Air Crash, Congo DRC |
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2022 Sep 16 |
In Congo DRC Vidiye Tshimanga, the one-time spokesman for Tshisekedi's election campaign and top adviser in his current Cabinet, resigned after he was allegedly caught on tape negotiating a corrupt mineral deal, an allegation he denies. Links: Congo DRC, Corruption |
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2022 Sep 18 |
It was reported that the 250 Ukrainian troops with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo have returned home to help fight Russian forces. Links: Russia, Ukraine, Congo DRC |
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2022 Sep 20 |
Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi excoriated Rwanda for alleged incursions by its army and its support for a rebel group in his country’s eastern region in a wide-ranging speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Links: Rwanda, Congo DRC |
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2022 Sep 22 |
Court decisions and governments banned a 48-hour air controller’s strike in Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, Senegal and Togo. Links: Senegal, Togo, Chad, Congo DRC, Aviation, Central African Rep. |
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2022 Sep 23 |
In NYC at least 2,000 people rallied for climate action. Young activists staged protests from New Zealand and Japan to Germany and the Democratic Republic of Congo to demand that rich countries pay for the damage global warming is inflicting upon the poor. Links: Germany, Japan, Environment, Congo DRC, NYC, New Zealand |
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2022 Sep 23 |
Some air traffic control staff at airports in West and Central Africa went on strike over working conditions and pay as their union defied court rulings and government bans barring them from doing so. Some union members in Cameroon, Congo and the Comoros were arrested for participating in the strike. Air Senegal grounded several flights as a result of the action. Links: Senegal, Cameroon, Congo DRC, Aviation, Comoros |
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2022 Sep 24 |
A 48-hour strike by air traffic controllers in West and Central Africa was suspended the Union of Air Traffic Controllers' Unions (USYCAA), which called the wildcat strike, said in a statement it decided to suspend its strike notice for 10 days immediately so as to allow for negotiations. Links: Senegal, Cameroon, Chad, Congo DRC, Aviation |
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2022 Sep 27 |
Congo DRC declared the end of its latest Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern province of North Kivu. Health Minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani Mbanda said the 15th Ebola epidemic had lasted one month and 12 days. Links: Congo DRC, Ebola |
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2022 Sep 30 |
In eastern Congo DRC a Pakistani soldier serving as a UN peacekeeper was killed in a militant attack in the district of Minembwe. Links: Pakistan, UN, Congo DRC |
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2022 Oct 3 |
In Congo DRC a homemade explosive device went off in a cinema in the eastern city of Butembo, wounding at least 10 people, including children and teenagers. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Oct 24 |
In eastern Congo DRC fighters from the M23 rebel group clashed with the army in a fourth day of violence in which four civilians have been killed. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Oct 25 |
The Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) said Congo DRC President Felix Tshisekedi will serve as a facilitator for the political transition process in Chad. Links: Chad, Congo DRC, CEEAC |
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2022 Oct 28 |
In eastern Congo DRC renewed clashes between government soldiers and M23 rebels forced more people from their homes, deepening a crisis that the UN says already displaced 40,000 in a week's time. Links: UN, Congo DRC |
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2022 Oct 29 |
In eastern Congo DRC fighters from the M23 rebel group seized the town of Kiwandja, effectively cutting North Kivu's capital Goma off from the upper half of the province. Congo DRC gave Rwandan ambassador Vincent Karenga 48 hours to leave the country in retaliation for Rwanda's alleged support of the M23 rebels. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Oct 29 |
In Congo DRC 11 people were killed, including two police officers, in a crush at an overcrowded stadium concert in Kinshasa headlined by Congolese singer Fally Ipupa. Links: Congo DRC, Tragedy |
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2022 Oct 31 |
In eastern Congo DRC thousands joined anti-Rwanda protests in the city of Goma, denouncing Rwanda's alleged support of M23 rebels as Kinshasa recalled its interim acting ambassador from Kigali in a further souring of relations. Links: Rwanda, Congo DRC, Mad Crowd |
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2022 Nov 2 |
Kenya's President William Ruto officially deployed troops to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to join an East African regional force aiming to end decades of bloodshed. The Kenyan troops will join a contingent from Burundi. Links: Kenya, Congo DRC |
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2022 Nov 8 |
Congolese fighter jets began bombing M23 rebel targets in the embattled east. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Nov 11 |
In eastern Congo DRC fighting picked up between the M23 rebel group and the Congolese army. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Nov 14 |
The world's three largest rainforest nations Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia formally launched a partnership to cooperate on forest preservation after a decade of on-off talks on a trilateral alliance. Representatives of the three countries signed the joint statement at the talks in Indonesia ahead of the G20. Links: Brazil, Indonesia, Environment, Congo DRC, Trees |
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2022 Nov 14 |
A Congo DRC army spokesperson said fighting between the army and M23 rebels has moved close to the key eastern city of Goma, causing a fresh wave of displacement amid diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Nov 18 |
The East African Community (EAC) bloc said Kenya's former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame have agreed on the need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from captured territories in east Congo. Links: Rwanda, Kenya, Congo DRC, EAC |
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2022 Nov 19 |
Rwanda's defense ministry said an unidentified soldier believed to be from the Congolese army has been killed after crossing the border and firing at local security forces. Links: Rwanda, Congo DRC |
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2022 Nov 21 |
It was reported that commodities trader Trafigura, a Singapore-based private multinational, has agreed a $600 million syndicated financing facility with the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank to develop cobalt and copper mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Links: Singapore, Congo DRC |
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2022 Nov 21 |
Uganda said it will send 1,000 troops to neighboring Congo DRC by the end of this month to join a regional force mandated to help end decades of instability. Links: Congo DRC, Uganda |
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2022 Nov 29 |
In Congo DRC M23 rebels and their allies killed at least 50 civilians in a massacre in the eastern town of Kishishe. Thousands of people soon took the streets of Goma and Bukavu, the two main cities in Congo's east, to protest the deterioration of the security situation and foreign intervention. The death toll was later raised to 272. Links: Congo DRC, Massacre |
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2022 Dec 4 |
In Congo DRC tens of thousands of Christians took to the streets across the country to protest violence in eastern regions, as church leaders accused the international community of hypocrisy over Rwanda's alleged role in the fighting. Links: Congo DRC, Mad Crowd |
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2022 Dec 5 |
South Sudan’s military said more than 700 personnel will travel to eastern Congo to join a new regional force in trying to calm the latest deadly insecurity there. Links: Congo DRC, South Sudan |
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2022 Dec 5 |
It was reported that the Swiss-based mining company, Glencore, will pay $180m (£147m) to the Democratic Republic of Congo to settle corruption claims. Links: Switzerland, Congo DRC, Corp. Scandal, Corruption |
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2022 Dec 6 |
Chile's government launched an investigation after raspberries from a Chilean company were recalled in the United States due to hepatitis A contamination. Links: Congo DRC, Microbiology |
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2022 Dec 6 |
Congo's M23 rebel group said it is ready to withdraw from occupied territory in the east of the country and will support regional peace-making efforts despite not being represented in talks. Links: Congo DRC |
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2022 Dec 6 |
Democratic Republic of Congo authorities began sealing the offices and seizing the accounts of the local branch of South Africa's Vodacom over a tax dispute. Links: Congo DRC, Telecom |
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2022 Dec 8 |
The EU said it has added eight individuals to its sanctions list relating to the conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo. The new list included Willy Ngoma, spokesman of the M23 rebel group which has been fighting Congo's army in the east, and Alain Goetz, a Belgian businessman. Links: EU, Congo DRC |
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2022 Dec 8 |
The UN said the M23 armed group executed at least 131 villagers in reprisal killings in east Democratic Republic of Congo on Nov. 29-30 as part of a campaign of murder, rape, kidnapping and looting. Links: UN, Congo DRC |
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2022 Dec 13 |
In Congo DRC at least 50 people were reported killed in Kinshasa after heavy rains unleashed floods and caused landslides. The death toll soon rose to 169. Links: Congo DRC, Disaster, Flood |
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2022 Dec 13 |
Uganda's army said a group of 11 Islamist militants based in eastern Congo DRC were killed in clashes with Ugandan forces overnight during a cross-border raid. Links: Congo DRC, Uganda |
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2022 Dec 15 |
Democratic Republic of Congo increased its budget by 46% to $16 billion for 2023, boosted by an expected rise in tax and mining revenues. Links: Congo DRC, Economics |
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