We are writing to offer several key recommendations with regards to the draft legislation on the creation of specialized mixed chambers within the national judicial system of the Democratic Republic ...

The army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) asked the Senate this week to revoke former President Joseph Kabila’s immunity from prosecution. Removal of Kabila’s immunity would pave the way ...

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).

Three Americans have been transferred to the United States after their death sentences over a foiled deadly coup were commuted to life imprisonment last week by Congolese authorities, in the wake of ...

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 ...

Former DRC president Joseph Kabila during the inauguration ceremony for Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2019 [Jerome Delay/AP Photo] 31,228 ...

Twenty-five years since the six-day war in Kisangani in Democratic Republic of Congo in which hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands more injured, victims are still waiting for truth, justice ...

Editor’s Note: Sophie Rosenberg is part of the Democratic Republic of Congo research team for Amnesty International. She was present this week for Bosco Ntaganda’s first hearing in front of the ...

Women’s rights advocates have welcomed a landmark decision by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights holding the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accountable for widespread sexual ...

A criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday in the District of Utah charged four U.S. citizens with conspiring to unlawfully carry out a coup d’état in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Marcel ...

Justice is an essential element in the long-term work to rebuild the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a recent report to the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts, ...

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