•Judith Suminwa Tuluka The Democratic Republic of Congo’s planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka yesterday became the African nation’s first woman prime minister, state television announced. An economist, she takes over as prime minister from Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, following President Felix Tshisekedi’s sweeping re-election on December 20,...
•DR Congo’s players celebrate scoring third goal Former West Ham United defender Arthur Masuaku scored a vital goal as the Democratic Republic of Congo beat Guinea 3-1 yesterday to reach the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals. Masuaku netted direct from a free-kick on 82 minutes to give his country a two-goal advantage and they will […]...
•Morocco players Morocco will have to wait to clinch a place in the last 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations after being held to a 1-1 draw by the Democratic Republic of Congo today, with Silas Katompa Mvumpa earning the Leopards a deserved draw. Achraf Hakimi had given heavily-fancied Morocco an early lead in […]
•Aerial view shows floodwater at the new concession of agents of the Central Bank of Congo in Kinshasa Burst riverbanks are causing turmoil in DR Congo’s capital Kinshasa, with dark and foul-smelling water pouring into homes across working-class neighbourhoods in the central African megacity. The impoverished metropolis of some 15 million peop...
•A Congolese police officer stands guard at a polling station People in the Democratic Republic of Congo were voting today in a high-stakes election pitting the incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi against a fragmented opposition, whose leaders denounced “chaos” and “irregularities”. The first polling stations in the east of the vast central A...