Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joseph Kabila took over as president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 26 January 2001 after the assassination of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a high military ...

At the High Military Court in Kinshasa, the auditor general of the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) demanded the death penalty and immediate arrest of former president Joseph Kabila, branding him the ...

A high military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and war crimes Tuesday on accusations of collaborating with anti-government rebels ...

Last week authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo imposed a 90-day ban on any media coverage of former President Joseph Kabila or his party in response to his recent statements and visit to ...

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for "treason". Kabila, 54, who was neither present nor represented at the ...

Former president Joseph Kabila rallied opponents of the Democratic Republic of Congo's current government in Kenya's capital on Wednesday, announcing a new movement to "save" his crisis-hit country.

Laurent Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated in his office at the Marble Palace on January 16, 2001. The killer, a former bodyguard of the country’s ...

The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has witnessed armed conflicts running for decades, with a recent onslaught by M23, a Rwanda-backed rebel force, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

KINSHASA, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's president has pardoned at least 26 men convicted of plotting the 2001 assassination of then-leader Laurent Kabila, the presidency said.

The chosen candidate "will be known early in the morning," Kabila's spokesman Lambert Mende told AFP after the talks. Members of a pro-Kabila alliance known as the Common Front for Congo (FCC) were ...

But, in a long speech enumerating his government's policies, Kabila did not spell out whether he would seek a new term in office. In a state-of-the-nation speech that had sparked intense speculation ...