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At least 28 people are killed after a boat capsizes on the Congo River in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2023-10-22

A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sentences six men to life in prison for the assassination of Italian envoy Luca Attanasio in February 2021.
2023-04-7

Kenya officially deploys troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist an East African Community peacekeeping mission.
2022-11-2

Felix Tshisekedi and his office report an attempted coup d'etat in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2022-02-8

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announce that a 3-year-old boy who died last Wednesday in Beni tested positive for Ebola. The health minister could not confirm if this was related to the Kivu Ebola outbreak which ended in 2020 and killed more than 2,200 people, but said that they were closely monitoring 100 people who may have been exposed to the virus and that three boys, all of whom were neighbors of the toddler, were already showing symptoms of the disease.
2021-10-8

The Democratic Republic of the Congo enacts a "state of siege" over the provinces of Kivu and Ituri for 30 days. During this time, both provinces will be placed under military rule. The provincial governments and entities of these provinces will either be replaced by offices of the FARDC or by the national police. Civil jurisdictions will also be replaced by military jurisdictions.
2021-05-6

A new outbreak of the Ebola virus disease kills at least 17 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2018-05-8

A landslide in a village along Lake Albert in the Democratic Republic of the Congo leaves at least 60 dead.
2017-08-16

Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo as fighting continues near the eastern city of Goma.
2013-05-23

Democratic Republic of the Congo opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi's party calls for mass protests amid disputed elections.
2011-12-14