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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 2 April 2022

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DRC parliament votes out economy minister over inflation

Legislators blamed Jean-Marie Kalumba for soaring prices of goods and mismanagement of the fishing industry.

Al Jazeera

Eight killed as UN helicopter crashes in eastern DRC

Six Pakistanis, Russian and Serbian peacekeepers die as chopper crashes during reconnaissance mission in North Kivu.

Al Jazeera

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DRC is set to become 7th member of the east Africa trading bloc: what's in it for everyone

Shortly after his controversial electoral victory in early 2019, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi sought to get his country admitted into the East African Community. Recently, the East African Community ministers recommended the DRC’s admission, a decision set to be formalised by the bloc’s…

The Conversation

Doctors without Borders suspends operations in NE Congo due to violence

French charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) announced on Monday that it would stop its humanitarian aid operations in two villages in the north eastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to an increase in violent attacks, two of which recently targeted its workers.

Radio France Internationale

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Benzinga

Nests vs jobs: will a new port spell doom for DRC’s olive ridley turtles?

Despite recent success in increasing numbers, Congo’s rising sea levels, coastal erosion and now the country’s first deep sea port pose new threats

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Death toll climbs to 75 in southeastern DRCongo train derailment

The death toll from a freight train that derailed over the weekend in Lualaba, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has risen from 60 to 75 after more bodies were discovered, says officials.

Radio France Internationale

Uganda-DRC reparations verdict raises questions about the price of justice

In 2005, the International Court of Justice found that Uganda had committed serious violations of international law during the 1998-2003 war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The Conversation

Small-scale gold miners in DRC challenge the view that they can't cut it

Artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa has grown significantly in recent decades. Between 1999 and 2019, the estimated number of African miners engaged in this sector increased from two million to 10 million. Typically, it is much more labour intensive than large-scale mining, and the work more physically demanding.

The Conversation

French-Cameroonian pop artist Fred Ebami aims to inspire the next generation

With his bright portraits of black icons overlaid with slogans of empowerment, Fred Ebami mixes pan-African sensibility with a pop-art lens. Raised in France, with Cameroonian roots, Ebami says his first muse was Jesus. He's gone on to explore the divisiveness of icons - from American rapper Kanye West to…

France 24

Turkey's Erdogan continues his tour of West Africa, with security and investment on the agenda

Turkey's latest diplomatic drive in Africa continues to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, after several bilateral cooperation agreements were signed between Kinshasa and Ankara during a brief visit by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the DRC on Sunday.

Radio France Internationale

Lessons from the DRC’s 10th Ebola epidemic: the people may know best

The tenth Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared in North Kivu on 1 August 2018. The international response to the epidemic was significant. More than half a billion dollars of international aid flowed into the country. A newly approved, highly protective vaccine was used,…

The Conversation

UN court orders Uganda to pay DR Congo €285 million in war damages

The UN's top court has ordered Uganda to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo 285 million euros over a war two decades ago. The sum represents just a fraction of what Kinshasa originally demanded.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Anything to stop the massacres’: peace still eludes DRC as armed groups proliferate

After years of conflict between the DR Congo’s ineffective army, rebel forces and local militias, can Uganda’s entry into the war bring peace?

The Conversation

COVID vaccines: African countries need to fix their distribution chains

Sub-Saharan Africa still has too few vaccines for too few people. Delivering more inoculations to the region deserves top priority. But there is another hurdle to overcome to successfully deploy vaccines: the region’s poor trade and logistics quality. Logistics are a network of services that support the physical movement of…

The Guardian - UK

Calls for security crackdown as 60 are killed in DRC camp violence

Casualties included 15 children, as families sheltering in a camp for displaced people were caught in escalating violence

Al Jazeera

Calls for justice after DRC refugee murdered in Brazil

Family say Moise Kabagambe, 24, was fatally beaten after asking for overdue wages from his Rio de Janeiro employer.

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The Independent UK

DRC militia kills dozens in attack on camp for displaced people

Fighters from the CODECO group killed more than 60 people with machetes and other weapons

Al Jazeera

DRC: Dozens killed in attack on camp for displaced people

Suspected militiamen attacked camp in Ituri province, killing civilians ‘with edged weapons’, monitor says.

Asharq Al-Awsat

DP World Starts Construction of Banana Port in Congo

DP World, the world's leading provider of smart logistics, and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tuesday laid the first stone to mark the start of construction of the new Banana Port. The stone laying follows the signing of the collaboration agreement in December 2021 between…

Radio France Internationale

51 condemned to death in DRC for 2017 murder of UN researchers

The military court of Katanga in southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sentenced 51 people to death over the murders of two United Nations researchers who were carrying out an investigation into violence in the Kasai region in 2017.

The Guardian - UK

Two men playing draughts on an abandoned train: Gosette Lubondo’s best photograph

‘Both of the people on this train in Kinshasa are me. I superimposed myself because I can’t afford models’

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