A United Nations peacekeeper from South Africa was killed and another wounded in an attack on their helicopter in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, the organisation said. The aircraft came under fire at around 3:00 pm (1200 GMT) during a flight to Goma, the provincial capital of Nord-Kivu province, where it was able to land,
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Legislators in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have voted to remove Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, collapsing the government and handing President Felix Tshisekedi a chance to appoint loyalists to key ministries. Wednesday’s vote marks the latest episode in a power struggle that has roiled sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest nation for months, pitching Tshisekedi
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More than 18 people in restive region of Kivu in DR Congo’s troubled east have been killed by heavily armed Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia blamed for hundreds of deaths this past year, local sources said on Thursday. It was gathered that the army and UN forces are fighting several armed groups at the
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At least three persons died during a protest by hundreds of demonstrators in the DR Congo capital against the coronavirus lockdown closure of the city’s main market, officials and witnesses said. Police said they fired warning shots to disperse the protesters who gathered at the site on Tuesday to demand the reopening of the Kinshasa
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DR Congo has confirmed its first coronavirus case in the capital Kinshasa, the third most populous city in Africa, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The patient is a Belgian citizen who has been in the country for several days, Health Minister Eteni Longondo said. “He is confined to a hospital,” the minister said. “We
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Seven people died in a fresh attack by the Mai-Mai militia on three police posts in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east, where more than 60 people have been killed in violence this week. Seven bodies were found and seven others were injured in the raids late Friday in Mamove in the volatile Beni
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