[allAfrica] Cape Town -- At least 60 people died when a passenger barge carrying more than 700 people sank on the Congo river at night, Reuters reports.

[East African] Kinshasa -- DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi on Monday named Sama Lukonde Kyenge as the new prime minister.

[New Times] Top security officials from Rwanda and DR Congo on Sunday, February 14, concluded their meeting after agreeing on "a series" of recommendations and a plan of action that will help deal with security threats that affect both countries.

[HRW] Kinshasa -- Investigate New Leads in 2010 Chebeya-Bazana Case

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Coronavirus pandemic feared driving more children into armed groups as world marks Red Hand Day

[CPJ] New York -- Congolese authorities should immediately release journalist Pius Romain Rolland Ngoie and reform their country's laws to decriminalize defamation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

[CFR] Three months after health authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared the country had brought to an end its eleventh outbreak of Ebola, the disease has killed the wife of a survivor in a hospital in Butembo, a large city (e...

[Africa Renewal] COVID-19, the AfCFTA, peace, climate change, integration, gender equality and promoting African culture are his top priorities.

[Crisis Group] As power shifts into the hands of DR Congo's President Tshisekedi, the risk of conflict with Kabila supporters still looms. In this excerpt from our Watch List 2021 for European policymakers, Crisis Group urges the EU and its member st...

[ICRC] All Suffered From Malnutrition -- Three years may have passed since violence ravaged the central region of Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but thousands of families are still struggling to return to normal. Farming is the main l...

[OHCHR] Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Marta Hurtado

[FrontPageAfrica] Addis Ababa -- The Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) have elected President Felix- Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the new Chairperson of the African Union for the ye...

[WHO] Brazzaville -- The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today announced that a new case of Ebola has been detected in Butembo, a city in North Kivu Province, where a previous outbreak was declared over in June 2020.

[Unicef] Staff from UNICEF are working with the DRC Ministry of Health and medics in North Kivu province -- in the east of the country -- following an announcement by the Ministry of Health of the death of a 42 year-old-mother from Ebola.

[DW] The World Health Organization said that researchers were examining samples from the patient for potential links to the previous outbreak. WHO has traced at least 70 contacts to the new case.

[HRW] Special License for Billionaire Dan Gertler Undercuts Magnitsky Sanctions

[African Arguments] On 27 January 2020, the Congolese parliament passed a motion of censure against Prime Minister Ilunga. The PM called the parliament's decision unconstitutional, but nevertheless offered his resignation two days later. The question...

[ISS] On 6 February, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi will officially take over the rotating chairship of the African Union (AU) for 2021 - this as he manoeuvres to consolidate power at home.

[HRW] The Honorable

[DW] Dominic Ongwen was a child soldier and a commander of one of Africa's most notorious rebel militias. His fate will now be decided by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. But can a victim be a perpetrator, too?

[UN News] The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has warned against potential crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following a spike in attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group, in two provinces in the ea...

[DW] Months after Belgium's Black Lives Matter protests, the country's reckoning with its past has come under scrutiny. But some Belgian activists feel that tackling race and colonialism-related issues needs a bigger push.

[ISS] Having been declared the winner of a contested election in December 2018, President Félix Tshisekedi's Cap pour le Changement (CACH) sealed a governing alliance with his powerful predecessor, Joseph Kabila's Front commun pour le Congo (FCC). T...

[Egypt Online] In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most MercifulYour Excellency, Dear Brother Felix Tshisekedi, President of the Fraternal Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),

[Nation] Kinshasa -- The World Bank said Monday it was suspending a first tranche of USD100 million in a programme to fund free schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo over "fraud and corruption" in the country's education sector.

[The Conversation Africa] Throughout history, ethnic stereotypes have been used to justify mass violence, exclusion, oppression, and inequality in many corners of the world. In times of violent upheaval and conflict, ethnic narratives often come to t...

[Nation] The Lingala music fraternity is mourning the death of former Kass Kass band singer Jean Papy Ramazani who died on Wednesday in North Seattle, USA.

[MSF] In the last two years, the unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have found refuge on the other side of the border between North and South Kivu, where they share limited reso...

[CISA] Goma -- A joint mission by the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) and the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), has revealed that people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are living in great suff...

[DW] President Felix Tshisekedi is seeking to oust supporters of former President Joseph Kabila in an attempt to consolidate power. Prime Minister Illunkamba denounced the vote; an ally said that he would not resign.