The bravest bankers: Navy Malela and Gradi Koko refused to stay silent in the face of injustice – even when speaking out carried grave risks for them and their families
Last week, journalists exposed corruption linked to Joseph Kabila. Now a judicial inquiry is looking into the former president’s link with a major bank
BGFIBank allegedly played a central role in a years-long scam that allowed former DRC leader Joseph Kabila’s family and close associates to launder $243-million in public and suspect funds
Troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2001 as part of the UN peacekeeping mission that became an offensive against rebels
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“Family fortunes” in Chad reflect further-reaching dynamics of ruling
Sibusiso Moyo, the third Zimbabwean minister to die from the virus, was a potential successor to the president
The country’s governing coalition is under strain, which could lead to even more acrimony ahead
If we do not take care, presidents will make lawlessness the standard of our civic life. Let’s make sure it does not come to that!
Government must take steps to clean up the country’s dirty real estate market, which has long offered a safe haven for criminals
Countries in political transition have very little time in which to deliver socioeconomic and political change
An update of How to Rig an Election is a guide to new strategies used by authoritarian leaders to stay in power
Tshisekedi was elected in December to replace Kabila who presided over sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest country for nearly two decades
Even as Algeria and Sudan have rid themselves of their long-standing leaders, Guinea may be about to create a new president-for-life
The parties should focus on winning seats in Parliament and at other levels of government
The DRC’s former president has his eye on a long-term goal — to become of member of the Class of 2034 of lifelong leaders
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In his first speech since the December 30 presidential election, Kabila said he was ‘calling for a grand coalition of all the progressive forces’
Announcing the final results of the much-delayed poll, the Constitutional Court said Tshisekedi had won by a simple majority
Analysis of different sets of data have cast a shadow over the country’s election results announced last week
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Constitutional Court said it would start hearing on Tuesday an appeal against the presidential election results
Martin Fayulu has appealed to the Constitutional Court to annul the provisional result which awarded victory to his opposition rival Felix Tshisekedi
The DRC is a complex, challenging political quagmire
But there are fears that Felix has been co-opted by Joseph Kabila, who controls the electoral commission
France’s top diplomat says the Church’s count indicated Felix Tshisekedi’s opposition rival Martin Fayulu had actually won
Instead, it masks the paucity of effective government and is not resulting in development
The president-elect of the DRC says he will be the people’s president
Since his father founded the UDPS in 1982, the party has served as an opposition mainstay in the DRC
The country is in flux over a thrice-delayed presidential vote
Opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu earlier on Tuesday warned electoral authorities ‘not to disguise the truth of the polls’
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Efforts to pull off democratic elections that could pass muster in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are hanging by a thread
The December 30 vote saw 21 candidates run to replace President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the vast, conflict-ridden country for almost 18 years
Twenty-one candidates are contending the presidential elections
The vote crowns two years of turmoil, sharpening worries that the fragile giant of central Africa may once more spiral into violence