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The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to start the withdrawal of the United Nations peacekeeping force from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The withdrawal will start in South Kivu in eastern Congo, gradually handing over its responsibilities to the Congolese government.
2023-12-19

The World Health Organization reports the first sexual transmission case of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a Belgium resident who traveled there.
2023-11-23

Four people are killed and six others are injured in an armed ambush on a convoy near the village of Kivandya, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2023-05-18

At least 42 people are killed by suspected CODECO militants during a raid at a village in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2023-04-14

Eleven people are killed during a crowd crush at a Fally Ipupa concert at the Stade des Martyrs in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2022-10-30

Four protesters are killed when a soldier shoots an electric cable that falls on them in Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were protesting the ineffectiveness of the MONUSCO.
2022-07-27

Wellcome Trust director Dr. Jeremy Farrar says the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has killed 1,400 people since August 2018, is the worst since the 2013–2016 outbreak in West Africa and shows "no sign of stopping". Uganda reported its first two deaths.
2019-06-12

The Democratic Republic of the Congo wants United Nations sanctions on Rwandese top military officials named in a June U.N. report as supporting the M23 rebels in the current east Congo conflict.
2012-09-3

The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for war crimes against Sylvestre Mudacumura, the commander of the Congolese rebel group, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.
2012-07-13

The United Nations says that more than 650 women and children have been detained, tortured and sexually abused during mass evictions from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2010-11-6