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9 February – At least 18 people are killed during a collision between a bus and a truck on a road in Kinshasa. [5]19 February – Rwanda rejects the United States’ calls to withdraw troops and missile systems from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, citing threats from an alleged Congolese military build-up near the border.
On 13 March 2015, a military spokesman announced that a total of 182 FDLR rebels were killed since the start of the January offensive. Large amounts of weaponry and ammunition were seized, as the army recaptured the towns of Kirumba Kagondo, Kahumiro, Kabwendo, Mugogo, Washing 1 and 2, Kisimba 1, 2 and 3, among other locales. [115]
General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 20 December 2023. Combined elections were held for the President, 484 of the 500 members of the National Assembly, 700 of the 716 elected members of the 26 provincial assemblies, and for the first time under the new constitution, 951 members of a scaled down number of commune (municipal) councils.
M23 rebels in Goma, November 2012. The March 23 Movement waged a rebellion in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 2012 to 2013. M23 was formed by deserters of the DRC Armed Forces (FARDC) who had previously been members of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) rebel group and been dissatisfied with the conditions of their service.
The regime of President Mobutu Sese Seko lasted 32 years (1965–1997), during which all but the first seven years the country was named Zaire.His dictatorship operated as a one-party state, which saw most of the powers concentrated between President Mobutu, who was simultaneously the head of both the party and the state through the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR), and a series of ...
(sub1: Janvier Kasiwa) [14] UDPS/Tshisekedi: Jean-Marie Kasereka A/B50 Célestin Vunabandi (inc.) Independent Sankuru: René Kalala (sub1: Richard Kimbulu) Independent Jules Lodi UDPS/Tshisekedi: Bernard Mpetshi 2A/TDC Christophe Lutundula: AB South Kivu: Norbert Basengezi AN Modeste Bahati (inc.) AFDC-A Eustache Muhanzi: A/VK2018 Aristide Bulakali
However, it was later announced on 5 January that the publication of preliminary results would be delayed, as less than half of the votes have been obtained by the electoral commission. [14] On 10 January the commission declared Félix Tshisekedi, leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress opposition party, the winner of the election ...
The party can trace its origins to a group of dissenting parliamentarians during the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko and his Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR). In December 1980, Mobutu received a 52-page open letter calling for the democratization of the political system in Zaire (as the DRC was then known) and the permittance of opposition parties. [7]