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[14] February 15 – Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde becomes the new Prime Minister; [15] 2021 Congo River disaster [16] February 22 – The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, is killed in an apparent kidnapping attempt near Kanyamahoro, north of Goma. A carabiniere and their driver are also killed by the ...
In 2021, the Transnational Institute published a report about the role of the arms trade in displacements, finding that "between 2012 and 2015 Bulgaria exported assault rifles, large-calibre artillery systems, light machine guns, hand-held under-barrel and mounted grenade launchers to the Democratic Republic of Congo's national police and ...
14 July Batumbi, Ituri 1 1 An anti-personal mine laid by the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Force killed a man and injured another. [108] 15 July Tinda Bridge, Ituri 4 2 Four people were killed and two injured near Tinda Bridge when an unknown group opened fire on a car. [109] 15 July Beni, North Kivu 2 0 The ADF killed two civil society members in ...
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 ...
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.
A 2013–14 survey, conducted by the Demographic and Health Surveys Program in 2013–2014 indicated that Christians constituted 93.7% of the population (with Catholics making up 29.7%, Protestants 26.8%, and other Christians 37.2%). A new Christian religious movement, Kimbanguism, had the adherence of 2.8%, while Muslims made up 1%. [241]
(January 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy ...
The People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (French: Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie or PPRD) is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.