by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 17, 2017 | World
Rebels from an outlawed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo staged a prison break in the country’s capital, freeing their spiritual leader and 50 other inmates, the government announced. “Followers of the Bundu Dia Kongo (BDK) attacked Makala prison at...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 30, 2013 | World
Kinshasa, Reuters—Congolese soldiers repulsed attacks on the airport, a barracks and the state television headquarters in Kinshasa on Monday in what authorities said appeared to have been an assault by followers of religious leader Paul Joseph Mukungubila. Before...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 5, 2013 | World
Dakar, Reuters—Congo’s President Joseph Kabila pledged on Saturday to turn the recommendations from three weeks of national dialogue into policies to tackle the central African nation’s daunting social, institutional and economic problems. The talks in the...
