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Former DRC president Joseph Kabila.

Ramaphosa, Mnangagwa urge DRC’s Tshisekedi to drop Kabila charges

Sources said Mnangagwa and Ramaphosa discussed Kabila’s predicament in Zimbabwe in August and agreed that the treason charges were not fair

The M23 rebels have said they support the withdrawal of the South African National Defence Force from the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Mbeki throws diplomatic hot potato at government over M23 invitation

The international relations department was not aware of the rebels’ presence in South Africa

Intense clashes  resumed between M23 rebels and a coalition of government forces, local militias known as Wazalendo and the Burundian army.

M23 to attend peace conference, but DRC government boycotting

Opposition officials in the DRC have accused the government of blocking their attempts to travel to the forum hosted by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation

Photo by Moses Sawasawa.

The world is brutally indifferent to the DRC’s democracy

The country’s future is inextricably intertwined with that of the planet itself. That is not necessarily a good thing

The DRC’s Martin Fayulu needs to decide whether he can continue with his campaign or adopt a new strategy ahead of elections in 2023, writes the author. (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

Losers in Africa’s presidential elections need to be more strategic

The parties should focus on winning seats in Parliament and at other levels of government

President Joseph Kabila’s tenure over the vast mineral-rich country has been marked by a reputation for corruption, inequality and unrest. (Kenny Katombe/Reuters)

Kabila co-opts the opposition to prolong a family dynasty

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

Kabila was catapulted to power aged 29 after his father’s assassination. (Kenny Katombe/Reuters)

Kabila urges unity on eve of new president’s inauguration

In his first speech since the December 30 presidential election, Kabila said he was ‘calling for a grand coalition of all the progressive forces’

Felix Tshisekedi (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC court confirms Tshisekedi winner of disputed presidential election

Announcing the final results of the much-delayed poll, the Constitutional Court said Tshisekedi had won by a simple majority

The DRC’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday began hearing an appeal brought by Fayulu challenging the election results. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

Voting data points to massive fraud in DRC presidential election

Analysis of different sets of data have cast a shadow over the country’s election results announced last week

Tshisekedi was credited with 38.57% of the vote, against 34.8% for Martin Fayulu, according to the provisional results. (Caroline Thirion/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC court to examine election appeal from Tuesday

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Constitutional Court said it would start hearing on Tuesday an appeal against the presidential election results

The transition now facing the DRC is certain to be long, perilous, and frustrating. The celebrations may prove short-lived. (AFP)

The road ahead for the DRC

Central Africa’s giant holds the continent’s richest mineral wealth, yet its economy remains woefully underdeveloped and its people impoverished

Opposition presidential candidate in the DRC, Martin Fayulu, leaves the CMP with his wife Esther after they attended a Sunday mass on January 13. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

Who is Martin Fayulu?

Known as the ‘people’s soldier’, Fayulu is challenging the DRC’s December 30 election results

The African Development Bank’s shareholders must decide whether the mandate will expand to crowd in private finance, derisk green investment and underwriter regional public goods, or retreat to classical project lending.

SADC urges unity government after DRC vote

The regional bloc has urged ‘all political leaders to consider a negotiated political settlement for an all-inclusive government’ in the DRC

‘Peace is an essential part of the democratic process,’ says ?International Relations Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. (Dirco)

SA supports DRC’s peaceful election — Sisulu

The international relations minister says the government is awaiting the final results

The DRC’s Martin Fayulu needs to decide whether he can continue with his campaign or adopt a new strategy ahead of elections in 2023, writes the author. (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC presidential runner-up asks court to cancel result

Martin Fayulu has appealed to the Constitutional Court to annul the provisional result which awarded victory to his opposition rival Felix Tshisekedi

DRC’s Independent National Electoral Commission Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo announces the provisional results of the presidential election in Kinshasa on January 10. (Junior D. Kannah/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC Catholic Church says vote result ‘does not reflect’ polling station data

France’s top diplomat says the Church’s count indicated Felix Tshisekedi’s opposition rival Martin Fayulu had actually won

Felix Tshisekedi has promised the return of the rule of law to the DRC, to bring about peace and to fight the ‘gangrene’ of corruption. (Caroline Thirion/AFP/Getty Images)

Who is Felix Tshisekedi?

The president-elect of the DRC says he will be the people’s president

Felix Tshisekedi (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC’s Tshisekedi: Son, heir and president-elect

Since his father founded the UDPS in 1982, the party has served as an opposition mainstay in the DRC

Photo of fuel tanks at the edge of a Military airstrip on Diego Garcia, largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean

Hopes rise that DRC’s elections are in home stretch

The country is in flux over a thrice-delayed presidential vote

An Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) agent seals a ballot box in front of observers at the Kitendo voting centre in Lubumbashi’s Mapala district on December 30. (Caroline Thirion/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC election results could be counted in ’24-48 hours’ — official

Opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu earlier on Tuesday warned electoral authorities ‘not to disguise the truth of the polls’