The United Nations and Congolese authorities launched an appeal Friday in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, for $748 million to provide lifesaving assistance for 6.7 million people across the conflict-wracked country. The.
The Congolese army on Tuesday said armed fighters belonging to the former M23 rebel group had captured four crew members of a military helicopter which crashed in eastern Democratic Republic.
Democratic Republic of Congo’s ruling coalition and other smaller parties have agreed to delay next month’s elections to April 2018. Congo’s main opposition bloc was not immediately available for comment,.
Backers of Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila and part of the opposition agreed on Wednesday on the sequence of a series of upcoming elections, potentially removing a major.
