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The 2025 Kinshasa riots are a series of violent demonstrations that occurred on January 28, 2025 in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). ). Multiple foreign diplomatic missions, including the embassies of the United States, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda, became targets of civil unrest as protesters expressed their opposition to ...
KINSHASA (Reuters) -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 ...
Protesters demand that foreign powers use their influence over Rwanda to curb conflict in the east. DR Congo protests: Police fire tear gas to disperse anti-Western demonstrations in Kinshasa Skip ...
Police in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday dispersed a small protest in the capital Kinshasa against the provisional results of the December legislative election, the latest flare-up in ...
On 19 January 2015, protests led by students at the University of Kinshasa broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The protests began following the announcement of a proposed law that would allow the country's 43-year-old president, Joseph Kabila, to remain in power until a national census could be conducted.
The violence started on 9 June 2022 in the village of Masia-Mbe, in the Bateke Sud sector of Mai Ndombe, where Yaka and Mbala farmers gathered to protest against the tax increase. The crowd marched to the house of a local chief and began to throw stones; the chief's brother responded by opening fire with a hunting rifle and killing one Yaka farmer.
KINSHASA/GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo held presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday - a vote disrupted by hours-long delays, opposition ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo [b] (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world.