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Africa: Congo

Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala, deputy director of publication for Congolese news website Actualite.cd and a reporter for Reuters and Jeune Afrique, was arrested on September 8, 2023, in Kinshasa. Photo courtesy of Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala

CPJ condemns charging, detention of DRC journalist Stanis Bujakera

Sep 22, 2023 | Africa: Congo

New York, September 22, 2023 mdash;The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the charging and ongoing detention of j ...

Sep 21, 2023 | Africa: Congo

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday called for a speedy withdrawal of a key UN peacekeeping m ...

Sep 19, 2023 | Africa: Congo

Two weeks into a military trial over the killing of more than 50 civilians in eastern DR Congo, the circumstances of how ...

Sep 15, 2023 | Africa: Congo

Police officers arrive en masse, force their way into a house and unceremoniously throw furniture and household applianc ...

Sep 12, 2023 | Africa: Congo

Kinshasa, September 11, 2023 mdash;Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should immediately and unconditionall ...

Sep 12, 2023 | Africa: Congo

Amnesty International said Tuesday that the expansion of industrial copper and cobalt mines in mineral-rich Democratic R ...

Sep 8, 2023 | Africa: Congo

Children in eastern DR Congo are facing unheard-of violence, the UN warned Friday, cataloguing rapes, killings and use o ...

Sep 6, 2023 | Africa: Congo

Kinshasa, September 6, 2023 mdash;Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo must hold accountable the immigrat ...

Sep 4, 2023 | Africa: Congo

Peace seems out of reach and aid is in short supply. In camps for displaced people in DR Congo's war-torn eastern provin ...

Sep 1, 2023 | Africa: Congo

At least 48 people have been killed in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in eastern DR Congo, according to sources and o ...

Aug 22, 2023 | Africa: Congo

At least 23 villagers in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed in attacks blamed on rebels linked t ...

Aug 22, 2023 | Africa: Congo

The opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo is suffering repression and intimidation four months ahead of pre ...

Aug 16, 2023 | Africa: Congo

Political figures and members of DR Congo's civil society on Wednesday called for the authorities to scrap emergency mea ...

Aug 12, 2023 | Africa: Congo

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the body's mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo is entering its f ...