Wanted Ex-Intelligence Chief Returns to Congo

Last week Kalev Mutond, the former director of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Intelligence Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements, ANR), emerged from the shadows. Fearing arrest, Mutond had fled the country in March 2021, just days before judicial authorities issued 

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DRC: an adviser to Félix Tshisekedi trapped by fake investors

t is an "ambush at the top of the Congolese state", according to Africa Intelligence. This Thursday, the broadcast of a video showing Vidiye Tshimanga, a strategic adviser to Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi, is causing a stir. And for good reason: we see the influential politi

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Democratic Republic of the Congo H.E. Mr. Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President

FÉLIX-ANTOINE TSHISEKEDI TSHILOMBO, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said international peace and security crystallizes around the fight against terrorism, as well as calming hotbeds of conflict in Europe and Africa.  Conflict spares no continent, and is metastasizing

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DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi: 'Presidential elections will take place in 2023'

The President of the DR Congo told FRANCE 24 that he wants to launch a "cry of truth" and put an end to hypocrisy by denouncing in the Tribune of the United Nations "the direct military aggression" of Rwanda against his country. Tshisekedi added that he relayed this same message

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Monkeypox treatment trial begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A clinical trial to evaluate the antiviral drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, in adults and children with monkeypox has begun in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The trial will evaluate the drug’s safety and its ability to mitigate monkeypox symptoms and prevent serious

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Maximising the Democratic Republic of Congo's economic potential

The aim of the "Country Risk Conference" is to guide investors by sifting through the strengths and weaknesses of the country.

Major players in the regional political and economic spheres have gathered in the DRC around a report written by the pan-African rating agency Bloomfield

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Terrorist attack in East DR Congo left 12 dead

The armed men attacked the village of Masome in Ituri province on Friday morning, local civil society leader Gustave Kakani told AFP.

"The victims were women and men, cut up with machetes. Some bodies were decapitated, and others were found tied up. The victims were subjected to

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