Ikaba Koyi

Refugees and ac­tivists from Rwan­da and the DRC say the deal could have se­ri­ous im­pli­ca­tions for the wider re­gion.

The cur­rent diplo­mat­ic spat seems to have been trig­gered by fight­ing be­tween M23 and state forces in east­ern DRC.

Op­po­si­tion leader be­lieves the DRC has more to lose than gain from its re­cent in­te­gra­tion into the east­ern African bloc.

Ob­servers say the provin­cial elec­tions were taint­ed by ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties that could re­oc­cur on a grander scale in 2023.

In­tim­i­da­tion at­tempts be­lieved to be linked to doc­tor’s out­spo­ken crit­i­cism of armed groups’ vi­o­lence and rights abus­es.

As DRC marks 60 years of in­de­pen­dence, Georges Nzon­go­la-Nta­la­ja talks to Al Jazeera about its past, present and fu­ture.

No­bel lau­re­ate in­volved in DRC’s coro­n­avirus fight urges Kin­shasa to make test­ing kits avail­able across coun­try.