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24 Oct 2023, 8:09 pm
. - Institute of Security and Global Affairs) has published Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Oxford Univ. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 6:06 pm
Tristan McConnell in NairobiAn appeal court in the Democratic Republic of Congo upheld a death sentence against Joshua French, a former British soldier.Mr French, 27, who has dual British and Norwegian nationality, and his friend Tjostolv Moland, a 28-year-old former Norwegian soldier, face death by firing squad after a military tribunal in the town of Kisangani upheld their conviction for murdering their Congolese driver.Both men deny shooting Abedi Kasongo, who died from… [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 3:03 pm
Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals will sell all of its Congolese mines to Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. in a $1.25 billion deal that also resolves a three-year legal dispute involving both companies and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 1:24 am
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recent approval of an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) (the “Authorization”) for an in vitro diagnostic device for detection of Ebola virus (species Zaire ebolavirus and hereafter referred to as Ebola virus) reminds Americans and their health care organizations the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo […] [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 11:58 am
The Justice Department today urged a federal appeals court in Washington to strike down the monetary contempt sanction a judge imposed against the Democratic Republic of Congo for its alleged misconduct in litigation here. [read post]
24 Dec 2005, 9:18 pm
[JURIST] Election officials announced Saturday that citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive] approved a new constitution [draft text in French; AP summary] in a referendum [JURIST report] held December 18. [read post]
15 May 2012, 12:39 pm
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Case No. 10-15137. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 7:33 am
[JURIST] A team of Belgian lawyers on Monday filed a complaint in a Brussels court against 12 Belgian officials accused of planning the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba [advocacy profile], the first democratically-elected leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 6:45 am
[JURIST] French authorities on Tuesday transferred [ICC press release] Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] leader Callixte Mbarushimana [case materials] to The Hague where he will stand trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on charges that the FDLR committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in… [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 5:41 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Thursday reiterated their condemnation [press release] of a group of renegade soldiers attempting to destabilize the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) known as the 23 March Movement (M23). [read post]
12 Jan 2006, 1:25 am
[JURIST] Electoral results [press release] released by the Independent Electoral Commission [official website] in the Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive] Wednesday certify the landslide approval [JURIST report] of the new Congolese constitution [draft text, in French; AP summary]. [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 7:21 pm
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive] in Kinshasa Monday rejected a legal challenge [JURIST report] by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba [campaign website, in French; Wikipedia profile] to the official results of last month's presidential run-off election [JURIST report]. [read post]
11 Aug 2006, 5:29 am
[JURIST] Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive] have arrested six election officials in Kinshasa for electoral fraud after an opposition group alleged widespread irregularities [JURIST report] in July's presidential election [AP report; tallied results]. [read post]
23 May 2008, 1:40 pm
[JURIST] A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [JURIST news archive] Thurday sentenced three members of the Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) [group website, in French; GlobalSecurity backgrounder] separatist movement to death after finding them guilty of assassination and murder in a mass trial. [read post]
14 May 2005, 7:44 am
[JURIST] Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [BBC country profile; US State Department background note] announced Saturday that the country's legislature has adopted a new constitution to replace the transitional document agreed to in South Africa in 2002 to end the DRC's brutal five-year civil war, said to have killed some 3 million people. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 12:41 pm
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s justice ministry opened a murder investigation on Tuesday for the judge overseeing the corruption trial for President Tshisekedi’s Chief of Staff. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 6:50 am
Bemba returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo to submit [Al Jazeera report] his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election but was barred by a current law that prohibits people who were found guilty of corruption from entering the race. [read post]
24 May 2011, 11:11 am
Boating accidents are common in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which boasts a number of lakes and rivers, the largest of which is the Congo River. [read post]
26 Sep 2021, 5:58 am
Rights groups on Friday called for the immediate release of Sosthene Kambidi, a journalist arrested on terrorism charges in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 11:19 am
UN alarmed over Congo prison hunger deathsThe United Nations says it is alarmed by the number of deaths in a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo.At least 26 inmates have died from acute malnutrition at the main prison in the city of Mbuji Mayi in Kasai Oriental province since February.Four inmates died of hunger last week alone.The UN says it is particularly concerned because no measures are being taken to improve living conditions.It says many of the inmates have… [read post]
