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The Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the 2003 moratorium on the death penalty in an attempt to reduce the level of violence in the country.
2024-03-15

One park ranger is killed and another is injured in an attack by armed men near an illegal mine at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2023-06-27

Pope Francis begins his first papal visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He will also visit South Sudan on the same trip.
2023-01-31

In a 35-page report, a commission appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate sex abuses during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo finds that there were "clear structural failures" and "individual negligence" for the sex abuse and rape of women and girls between 2018 and 2020 by WHO staff. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom apologizes for the abuses.
2021-09-28

The Democratic Republic of the Congo announces that it will redeploy several of their AstraZeneca vaccines to other Africa countries.
2021-04-29

A train derails in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Tanganyika Province, killing about 15 people and injuring many others.
2019-09-12

The annual Thomson Reuters poll among aid agencies shows that the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with its war, hunger and Ebola outbreak, is perceived as the most neglected crisis of 2018. The Central African Republic, with its civil war, is a close second.
2018-12-20

Authorities find the remains of two missing U.N. investigators—former Swedish politician Zaida Catalán and U.S. national Michael Sharp—in a shallow grave in the province of Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2017-03-28

At least 30 civilians are killed in an attack by ethnic Nande militias in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2016-11-27

A Democratic Republic of the Congo protest calling for the resignation of President Joseph Kabila turns violent in Kinshasa, leaving at least 17 people dead, including three police officers. Opposition groups say that 50 people died.
2016-09-19