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Increasing Local Capacity to Solve DR Congo’s Humanitarian Crisis

May 3, 2023

On February 7, 2023, United Nations (UN) peacekeepers killed eight Congolese civilians and wounded 28 others. The official statement from the military governor of North Kivu province was that UN troops fired ‘warning shots’ to defend its convoy from an …

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Newspaper Editor jailed for exposing corruption in DR Congo

Wale Ajetunmobi

September 17, 2018

Government of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has jailed a newspaper editor who exposed corruption in the country’s Ministry of Sports.

Tharcisse Zongia, editor-in-chief of the satirical weekly newspaper, Grognon, was sentenced in absentia to one year in jail …