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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.
In 2004, Nkunda's forces began clashing with the DRC army in Sud-Kivu and occupied Bukavu for eight days in June 2004, where he was accused of committing war crimes. [3] Nkunda claimed he was attempting to prevent genocide against the Banyamulenge , who are ethnic Tutsi resident in the eastern DRC. [ 32 ]
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.
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 ...
"RDC : la CENI envisage l'organisation des élections du Président, des députés et des conseillers en décembre 2023". Radio Okapi (in French). 3 February 2022. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022 "RDC : La CENI publie le calendrier électoral du cycle 2022-2027". Radio Okapi (in French). 26 November 2022
The Senate has 108 elected seats with four seats per province and eight for the city-province of Kinshasa.The members of a provincial assembly make up the electoral college that elects the senators of that province.
Congolese soldiers of the colonial-era Force Publique pictured in 1928. The first organised Congolese troops, known as the Force Publique, were created in 1888 when King Leopold II of Belgium, who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secretary of the Interior to create military and police forces for the state. [13]
This discrepancy is due to a lack of official, reliable data. Emigrants from the DRC are above all long-term emigrants, the majority of whom live in Africa and to a lesser extent in Europe; 79.7% and 15.3% respectively, according to estimated 2000 data. New destination countries include South Africa and various points en route to Europe.