The campaign, known among the police as “Operation Likofi IV,” targeted alleged gang members in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. Human Rights Watch found that police officers, often wearing ...

Panic in DR Congo's Goma as M23 rebels advance DR Congo football squad use Afcon spotlight to call for peace More than 50 police officers were deployed on Monday to protect the UK embassy ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has stepped up security in the capital ... Around 4,500 additional police backed by state security agents have been deployed before the event, the games ...

A banned protest in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), turned violent on Wednesday as police forcefully dispersed demonstrators, leaving several people wounded. The EU ...

Several people were wounded in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital on Wednesday as riot police forcibly dispersed a banned protest by the opposition, who are calling for a re-run of last week ...

In the eastern DR Congo, M23 rebels backed by Rwanda have ... The rebels say that more than 2,000 Congolese police officers have surrendered and joined their movement. It is impossible to ...

The disputed vote threatens to further destabilise poverty-stricken Congo, which is already grappling ... and other industrial minerals and metals. Police surrounded the headquarters of Martin ...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo must identify and hold to account the police officer who shot journalist Samy Kambere Malikidogo while covering a public demonstration against crime ...

A police source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... and in January proclaimed himself president of the DR Congo in a "divine coup". Dozens of armed groups and militias operate in the DR ...

DR Congo police fired tear gas to prevent anti-government protesters gathering in the capital Kinshasa on Friday, forcibly escorting an opposition leader back home to stop him participating in the ...

Two Congolese police officers sit in a former Monusco (UN peacekeeping mission in DRC) military base in Kamanyola, South Kivu, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 27 ...

DR Congo's former colonial power, on Monday. Demonstrations have taken place outside several Western embassies in recent days . In the latest protests, anti-riot police pushed back demonstrators ...