The president of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, who has accumulated 36 years in power, will seek a fourth term in elections due next March, the country’s ruling coalition said on Thursday. “Every party in the presidential majority opted, or will do so shortly, for President Sassou Nguesso’s candidacy,” said Pierre Moussa, acting
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The mayor of eastern Congolese city of Beni on Tuesday said 900 prisoners had escaped from jail, including members of an Islamist militant group. Modeste Bakwanamaha said rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and other rebel groups were among those who had been sprung from the jail by attackers using welding equipment. Out of
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At least 50 people are thought to have lost their lives after an artisanal gold mine collapsed near Kamituga, a mining town in the Mwenga Territory, South Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Images and video footage posted on social media networks showed hundreds of people – some of whom could be
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A South African military transport aircraft with UN peacekeeping soldiers onboard on Thursday was severely damaged when it crash-landed in Eastern Congo, a UN spokesman reported. Matthias Gillman, a spokesman for the UN stabilisation mission in Congo said that the four-engine turboprop C-130 Hercules aircraft overshot the runway while landing in Goma and burst into
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