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By Ange Kasongo and Benoit Nyemba. KINSHASA (Reuters) - The international community must take concrete action and impose sanctions on Rwanda to curb the M23 rebel conflict in eastern Congo and ...
Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits of Rwanda's president and tearing up Rwandan flags as M23 rebels have taken control of most the ...
DR Congo has experienced decades of militia violence, including armed rebellion by M23, which claims to defend the interest of the minority Rwandophone communities, including the Tutsi.
In Kinshasa, angry crowds targeted the French, Kenyan and Ugandan embassies among others. They stormed the streets, burning tyres and disrupting traffic. Authorities in Kinshasa have since banned ...
The 2025 Kinshasa riots are a series of violent demonstrations that occurred on January 28, 2025 in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). ). Multiple foreign diplomatic missions, including the embassies of the United States, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda, became targets of civil unrest as protesters expressed their opposition to ...
Kinshasa (/ k ɪ n ˈ ʃ ɑː s ə /; French:; Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until 30 June 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-growing megacities, with an estimated population, in 2024, of 17,032,322. [6]
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An attempted jailbreak in Congo’s main prison left 129 people dead, including some who were shot and others who died in a stampede at the overcrowded facility ...
In May 1997 the AFDL entered Kinshasa without any fighting as the Mobutu regime fell. [45] Kabila became president, restored the country's original name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [46] However, he continued Mobutu's authoritarian practices, filled the government largely with AFDL members, and did not hold elections.