The Constitutional Court in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Monday it had approved a petition by the electoral commission to delay a presidential election set for November, allowing President Joseph Kabila to remain in office until April 2018. Kabila was due to step down in December when his two-term[…]
Democratic Republic of Congo authorities have delayed elections to make sure the country is better prepared, President Joseph Kabilasaid on Tuesday, responding to accusations he is trying to cling to power. Congo’s electoral commission said on Saturday it expected polls to be delayed until December 2018. “We have decided to[…]
Rebels from the Hutu ethnic group in eastern Congo are suspected of killing at least seven civilians in revenge for the killing of one of their number, local activists said on Tuesday. Hundreds of civilians have died in inter-ethnic violence and a series of massacres by armed groups in Democratic[…]
Democratic Republic of Congo is unlikely to hold a presidential election as scheduled in November, the U.N. head of mission there said on Thursday, something that U.N. experts have warned could trigger violent political unrest. President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, is bound by term limits to step down[…]
It is the stuff of a disaster movie: an outbreak of yellow fever in Congo’s capital city, full of unvaccinated people mostly huddled together in slums with too few drains and the kind of sticky, fetid climate that mosquitoes love. Kinshasa’s 12 million people – twice as many as there[…]
Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared a yellow fever epidemic in three provinces, including the capital Kinshasa, after confirming 67 cases of the disease, with another 1,000 suspected cases being monitored. Health Minister Felix Kabange said only seven of the proven cases were indigenous to the Central African country,[…]
Three Congolese peacekeepers accused of sex abuse in the Central African Republic have appeared before a tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The three men – from the UN’s MINUSCA peacekeeping mission – are the first troops to be prosecuted in the scandal, which has seen more than 100[…]
Congo Republic’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso was on course on Tuesday to extend his long rule, according to preliminary election results that the opposition dismissed as fraudulent as police and troops patrolled the capital’s streets. Election commission president Henri Bouka told reporters that Sassou Nguesso, who has ruled Congo for[…]
The largest concentration of Arabs outside the Middle East is in Brazil, which has 9 million Brazilians of Arab ancestry, according to Saudi Aramco World. Of these 9 million Arabs, seven million are of Lebanese ancestry making Brazil’s population of Lebanese greater than that of Lebanon itself. Currently, the refugees[…]
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