Most Congolese jails were built by the Belgian colonial authorities and are now overcrowded, with prisoners sleeping on the ground and lacking drinking water.
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DR Congo fast-tracks $10billion Grand Inga project ahead of South Africa talks
President Felix Tshisekedi has ordered an accelerated rollout of agreements and legal reforms for the Grand Inga hydropower ...
DR Congo moves to update studies for 6,450-MW Pioka-Tombe dam Talks held with Italian firm Electroconsult to relaunch project Cross-border project could help ease Kinshasa’s electricity deficit The ...
A sapeur presents a creation on the runway during a dress rehearsal ahead of a fashion show at the IRMA in Kinshasa Photo: AFP In an abandoned hangar surrounded by dusty trucks in Kinshasa, young ...
Protesters burn barricades in downtown Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Jan. 28. Fighting between the Congolese military and the M23 rebels, supported by Rwanda, has left ...
In this week’s newsletter: nature’s last stand against the DRC capital’s rampant development, plus looking back on last year’s stories of hope Anyone who has ever seen a living baobab tree should find ...
CIMKO to invest over $300 million to double DRC cement capacity by 2027 Expansion to raise output to 3 million tons, create jobs, and cut imports Rising demand, illegal imports, and new competitors ...
The M23 rebel movement has rejected a decision by President Félix Tshisekedi's government to prepare for the reopening of Goma International Airport, describing Kinshasa's move as "illusory" and ...
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, M23 rebels have threatened to overthrow the government in Kinshasa. But experts say that the escalating war could be nothing more than a means of influencing peace ...
On May 16, Succès Masra, the Chadian opposition leader and former prime minister, was arrested in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital city. He is charged with complicity in intercommunal violence. But his ...
Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighborhood of Pakadjuma has struggled to end a cholera epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in the ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will take centre stage on the global cultural calendar this July, as it hosts the First World Music and Tourism Festival in Kinshasa from 16 to 18 July 2025.
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