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Amnesty International urges the international community on Monday to hold the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, accountable for violations of human rights. The group accused the DRC president of “ignoring the continuing deterioration of human rights under his own government” in his latest speech to the UN General Assembly [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Thursday detailing incidents of civilian atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid ongoing military confrontations involving Rwandan forces and the M23 rebel group. As these forces move closer to the town of Sake, local residents and more than half a million displaced individuals [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) released 1685 mostly ill inmates from the country’s largest prison on Sunday amid ongoing efforts to reduce overcrowding at the facility. The release from Makala Central Prison was announced by Minister of Justice Constant Mutamba to local media, which reported that the sick inmates were released due to [...]

The justice minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Constant Mutamba, announced the conditional release of 648 inmates from the country’s largest prison on Saturday amid efforts to ease overcrowding. The 648 prisoners released with parole conditions included 73 adults and eight juveniles. Makala Central Prison, built in 1957, is designed to accommodate [...]

Constant Mutamba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister of Justice, has been poisoned, according to a statement from the Ministry of State on Saturday. The minister underwent medical tests that morning after scientific police suspected poison exposure in his office. During their investigation, the police discovered a white powder on office furniture and equipment, [...]

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s interior minister Jacquemain Shabani Lukoo Bihango announced on Tuesday that 129 people were killed in an attempt to escape Makala Central Prison. Tenty-four people were killed by gunfire after allegedly failing to heed warnings; the remaining deceased reportedly died by crushing or suffocation. Fifty-nine others were also injured during the [...]

The justice minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Constant Mutamba, announced on Saturday the release of 527 prisoners from the central prison of Makala, DRC on X (formerly Twitter). Mutamba delivered 2,000 mattresses and ordered 7,000 mattresses to improve the detention conditions of prisoners, and said that prisoners in the DRC eat two [...]

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Tuesday released a landmark decision declaring that the displacement of the indigenous Batwa people from their ancestral lands within the Kahuzi-Biega National Park by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was a violation of their rights, and requesting the Batwa to receive title to their [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) informed the UN Security Council on Monday that phase one of the departure of the UN-DRC peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, had been completed on June 25, but the DRC’s representative stressed that the next withdrawal phase will be addressed when conditions permit, with no further information on the timeline [...]

Human rights organization Amnesty International issued a note of recommendation Monday urging the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to implement human rights pledges made by President Felix Tshisekedi and highlighting five priority rights issues in the African country. The note implored the DRC government to address the safety of civilians and unpunished war crimes in [...]