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On 25 July 2022, the Human Rights Watch reported that the M23 armed group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo summarily killed at least 29 civilians since mid-June 2022 in areas under their control. Abusive rebel force was receiving Rwandan support for its operations in North Kivu province.
Previously, the Congolese government had informed human rights organizations that only 26 people were sentenced to death in the DRC between 2006 and 2017, but those organizations found that the actual number of death sentences in that time frame was approximately 268, and that there were approximately 156 death sentences passed between 2016 and ...
t. e. The Republic of Congo gained independence from French Equatorial Africa in 1960. It was a one-party Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 civil war and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.
Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sama Lukonde was appointed on 15 February 2021. [1] He announced his first cabinet on 12 April 2021. [2][3] On 24 March 2023, a second cabinet was announced. [4]
Same-sex sexual activity is legal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Age of consent is equal, regardless of sex. [1] Homosexual acts have never been explicitly outlawed in the country's history. Before the foundation of the state in 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was ruled by the European colonial power Belgium.
t. e. The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as the Cabinet, is the junior institution in the executive branch of the central authority governing the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the senior institution being the President of the Republic. The President is the head of state whereas the Prime Minister is the head ...
Floribert Chebeya Bahizire [1] (13 September 1963 – 2 June 2010) was a leading Congolese human rights activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hailed by the United Nations as "a champion of human rights". [2] His death led to calls for an investigation from more than 50 organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights ...
On 7 April 2022, the UN General Assembly, which required a two-thirds majority, adopted the resolution with 93 votes in favour and 24 countries voting against. [1] 58 countries abstained. With Russia's membership valid through 2023, [13] the Russian delegation announced it had quit the Human Rights Council earlier that day in expectation of the ...