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Jun 27, 2021News

DRC, Rwanda establish economic cooperation

{The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed on Saturday three agreements on bilateral cooperation after a meeting between the two heads of state.}

Feb 19, 2017Politics

Burundi: Authority seeks arrest of opposition at Tanzania peace talks

{Burundi’s Government on Friday called on Tanzania to arrest several main opposition leaders attending a peace-talks in Arusha.} The Peace talks are in a bid to resolve a nearly two-year political conflict. The talks are the latest effort by former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa to mediate the crisis in neighboring Burundi which erupted when President […]

Feb 18, 2017News

Republic of Congo former spy chief dies under mysterious circumstances

{The Republic of Congo’s former spy chief is dead. Colonel Marcel Ntsourou died on Friday morning at a military hospital in the capital Brazzaville.} Africanews spoke to one of his lawyers, Yvon Eric Ibouanga, who confirmed his death. “I was in court and my phone rang. It was his wife who was calling from France […]

Jan 30, 2017Politics

The UN and the AU reaffirm support for Mkapa as a facilitator in the Burundi crisis

{The United Nations and the African Union on Saturday gave their support to the former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa as a facilitator in the Burundi crisis.} The two organizations In a recent press release said having taken note of the recent developments of the situation in Burundi the organizations have “reaffirmed their full support to […]

Jan 15, 2017News

DRC: Church worried over delays in release of political prisoners

{The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) has expressed “concern” over the delay in the implementation of the release of political prisoners almost a fortnight after the signing of the political deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).} “We are surprised by the delay … there are prisoners who had been announced as freed […]

Jan 6, 2017Politics

DRC political crisis: a timeline of events and the Church’s ‘saviour’ role

{Political stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are finetuning modalities of a political deal brokered by a non-political group – the Catholic bishops of the National Episcopal Conference of the Congo (CENCO).} CENCO’s decision to open a new dialogue despite a deal reached by the African Union mediator turned out to be more […]

Dec 23, 2016News

Burundi threatens to sue AU over unpaid peacekeepers’ allowances

{Burundi will sue the African Union over months of unpaid wages for its peacekeeping soldiers serving under the continental organization in Somalia, President Pierre Nkurunziza said.} The troops helping to restore peace and security in the Horn of Africa nation haven’t received allowances for 10 months after the European Union, which finances the AU mission, […]

Dec 20, 2016News

Morocco to provide resident permits to thousands of migrants

{Morocco launched the second phase of a campaign to ‘regularise’ the status of thousands of undocumented migrants on Thursday. The first phase was launched in 2014. The permits will allow them to work, enroll their children in school and have access to medical care.} The first phase was launched in 2014. More than 23,000 undocumented […]

Dec 16, 2016News

President Kabila and family own at least 70 companies in the DRC: report

{Since the end of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003, the family of the outgoing President Joseph Kabila is reported to have flourished by owning at least 70 companies.} According to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday, December 15, 2016, the scope the Kabila empire has recently become visible after […]

Dec 15, 2016Politics

DRC political dialogue back on track after slight setback

{The political dialogue in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resumed on Wednesday after hitting a snag on Tuesday.} One of the opposition parties, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), a party formed by Jean Pierre Bemba who is on trial at the Hague, on Tuesday announced it was withdrawing from the political […]