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In areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the human rights record has remained considerably poor [when?], and serious abuses have been committed. Unlawful killings, disappearances, torture, rape, and arbitrary arrest and detention by security forces increased during the year, and the transitional government took few actions to punish harsh people.
Prison conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo have deteriorated, with cases of torture and sexual violence being reported in detention centres run by the intelligence services, the U.N ...
When Felix Tshisekedi took office as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo following a disputed election in 2018, he promised to end decades of political repression and corruption that had ...
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.
Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo (born 1975) is a Congolese-Canadian anthropologist and human rights activist who has taught anthropology at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. In 2023, he was kidnapped while visiting family members in Goma, and was held for ransom until being released. He returned to Canada on 1 June 2024.
A desperate search for survival – women and children as young as nine years old spend hours each day digging at a cobalt mine in Kolwezi City in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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 ...
Ongoing conflict in the country has led to a humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of people killed by both sides. [12] UN convoys have been raided, leading to the murder of Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio, possibly by the FDLR.