Africa Times contributed post By Said Djinnit On 24 February 2013, eleven African heads of state made history in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework (PSCF) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region came into being. Sudan and Kenya joined the group 11 months…
It wouldn’t be the first time that the Government of Botswana and its outgoing President Ian Khama pressed for change in a neighboring African country. Khama provoked Robert Mugabe, the ossified former leader of Zimbabwe, on more than one occasion by publicly calling on him to step down and accused…
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At least three people have died and dozens more were reported injured following Sunday’s marches for democratic reforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Two were confirmed dead in Kinshasa and a third person died in Mbandaka, according to the Comité Laïc de Coordination (CLC), an arm of the Roman…
For the third time in as many months, peaceful protest marches are planned for Sunday in Democratic Republic of Congo – leaving many concerned because of the crackdown by Congolese security forces, sometimes inside churches, that claimed at least 14 lives in Kinshasa during marches in December and January. The…
Six people were killed Sunday in Kinshasa, as security forces shut down protest marches against President Joseph Kabila’s government organized by lay leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Roman Catholic churches. Florence Marchal, a spokeswoman for the United Nations mission there, told MONUSCO-affiliated Radio Okapi that there also were…
In Democratic Republic of Congo, the Roman Catholic community leaders planning a peaceful march on Sunday say they will go ahead with the protest despite a lack of approval from Kinshasa authorities. The Comité Laïc de Coordination (CLC) said Friday that “Christians, believers and men and women of goodwill” from all walks…
One year ago tonight came the news that influential Roman Catholic leaders with National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) had brokered a New Year’s Eve deal – one that would promise the presidential elections that President Joseph Kabila has resisted in Democratic Republic of Congo, and ensure a cooperative process with…
There’s one thing readers and viewers can count on as the year winds down, and that’s a deluge of “Year in Review” stories and posts. The political changes, the celebrity news, the economic issues – media outlets contribute their take on what shaped our days and the shared history of…
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With thousands of Congolese refugees streaming across the border into neighboring Zambia, the government in Lusaka announces a new permanent refugee settlement facility will open in the Mantapala area of Nchelenge District, near Lake Mweru in the country’s far north. The center will open soon to relieve congestion at Kenani,…
For the second time in 48 hours, a moderate earthquake struck Saturday evening near Lake Kivu in central Africa. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake happened at 7:20 p.m. local time in the Kabare region of Democratic Republic of Congo, about 23 kilometers to the southwest of the lakeside city of Bukavu. The United…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says alarm is ever-growing over extreme violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the number of refugees now fleeing into neighboring Zambia. Some 3,360 refugees poured across the border in September, more than doubling the total number who have sought safety…
President Joseph Kabila, whose term as president of Democratic Republic of Congo expired last December, shows no signs of moving toward the delayed presidential elections he has refused to hold. He has shrugged off any commitment to a December 31 power-sharing deal with the country’s Rassemblement political opposition coalition, one…
A moderate earthquake struck Friday evening in the Lake Kivu region of central Africa. The 5.0-magnitude earthquake happened at 7:45 p.m. local time in the Kabare region of Democratic Republic of Congo, about 23 kilometers to the southwest of the lakeside city of Bukavu. The United States Geological Survey said…
It is quite an audacious undertaking to compare a brutally despotic dictator against an exiled man who was forced to flee his home country to protect his life, and have the dictator come out on top. Alas, that is exactly what a recent sponsored hit piece in the Washington Times…
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The intrusion by Congolese military forces earlier this week at a United Nations base in the violent Kasai region has received strong condemnation from the head of MONUSCO mission Maman Sidikou. Sidikou, the UN special representative in Democratic Republic of Congo, said the incident was especially troubling because it was…