Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Four other languages, all of them Bantu based, have the status of national language: Kikongo-Kituba, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba. Democratic Republic of the Congo is a Francophone country, where, as of 2024, 55.393 million (50.69%) out of 109.276 million people speak French [2] and 74% report using French as a lingua franca. [contradictory] [3]
4 February – A humanitarian ceasefire is declared by the antigovernment Congo River Alliance, which includes M23. [10] 5 February – M23 seizes the city of Nyabibwe in South Kivu despite declaring a ceasefire. [11] 10 February – At least 55 people are killed in an attack by CODECO militants in the Djaiba area of Ituri. [12]
The Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) has one of the highest incidences of poverty in the world. And unfortunately it is still going on. DRC is #1 out of 11 top poor countries in the world (2014) At a rate of 71.34, its incidence of poverty is “extremely high”, even in comparison with other central African countries.
This language is used by 50.35% of the Congolese population who live along the Congo-Océan railway line which connects Brazzaville to Pointe-Noire in the south of the country. Lingala, the river language, is the language of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, and is spoken mainly in the north and east of the country. This is the language which has ...
Congo's president says he has confidence Wednesday's vote will be rolled out credibly, as tensions mount that a severe lack of electoral preparation could throw the conflict-riddled nation into ...
The Congo River is the world's deepest river and the world's third-largest river by discharge. The Comité d'études du haut Congo ("Committee for the Study of the Upper Congo"), established by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1876, and the International Association of the Congo, established by him in 1879, were also named after the river. [22]
The first ever human case was in Congo in 1970, and it has had outbreaks ever since. The current outbreak, Congo's worst ever, has seen 27,000 cases and more than 1,100 deaths since January 2023 ...
Years of rebel conflict and recurrent natural disasters have helped fuel a humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo. Around 5.5 million are displaced in Goma's province of North Kivu and neighbouring ...