Kinshasa: A court in Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced a political opposition leader to five years in prison on Wednesday, a human rights advocate said, a judgment that risks imperiling ...

Human Rights Watch received credible reports of at least 41 arrests in the restive eastern city of Goma on Monday, the same day that Franck Diongo, the leader of a minor opposition party and member of ...

Franck Diongo, leader of the minor opposition MLP party, has been sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday (28 December) by a court in Democratic Republic of Congo. He was found guilty of ...

What happens when a president refuses to step down? An approaching constitutional crisis has triggered deep political unrest in the Congo. By William Clowes Franck Diongo reached his party’s ...

FILE PHOTO: Democratic Republic of Congo's opposition Presidential candidate Moise Katumbi talks to his supporters after leaving the prosecutor's office in Lubumbashi KINSHASA (Reuters) - Two ...

KINSHASA, Congo – New Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has pardoned about 700 political prisoners who were jailed under his predecessor. Tshisekedi signed the decree Wednesday, fulfilling a promise he ...

Central African heads of state meeting Wednesday in Luanda, Angola, endorsed the deal signed last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo that delays that country's elections by nearly two years. But ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The new Congolese president, Felix Tshisekedi, has pardoned about 700 political prisoners who were jailed under his predecessor. Mr. Tshisekedi signed the ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - A court in Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced a political opposition leader to five years in prison on Wednesday, a human rights advocate said, a judgment that risks ...

KINSHASA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Two opposition candidates for Democratic Republic of Congo's presidential election next month said on Monday they would drop out and back another opposition candidate, ...