Category: Democratic Republic of the Congo

1. Congo’s President Tshisekedi Appoints New Prime Minister: President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has appointed a new prime minister, Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, to replace Bruno Tshibala. The appointment was made following a power-sharing agreement between the president and the opposition. Ilunga is a former minister of foreign affairs and has held several other ministerial positions in the past.

↪ DRC health ministry says mystery disease is ‘severe’ form of malaria 2 years ago
↪ Some ‘mystery disease’ patients in DRC have malaria, WHO says 2 years ago
↪ Young Francophone Africans pack out poetry slams as region’s woes pile up 2 years ago
↪ Unknown disease kills 143 people in south-west DRC, local authorities say 2 years ago
↪ Papa Noël obituary 2 years ago
↪ ‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo 2 years ago
↪ First known US case of person infected with new mpox strain reported 2 years ago
↪ Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths 2 years ago
↪ Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – finger-popping theory of the conspiracy to kill Congo’s leader 2 years ago
↪ ‘I went to war. It was a nightmare’: how children have become ‘cannon fodder’ in DRC’s endless conflict 2 years ago