‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved?

Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRC’s capital has reduced their number in the city centre to one ...
Jurist

DRC court denies provisional release for journalist Stanis Bujakera

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) High Court in Kinshasa-Gombe turned down a request to release journalist Stanis Bujakera from detention on Tuesday. According to Jeune Afrique Magazine and ...
The Africa Report

DRC ‘coup attempt’ leaves more questions than answers

The coup bid in Democratic Republic of Congo took place in the early hours of Sunday outside the residence of Economy Minister Vital Kamerhe in the capital’s northern Gombe area. The group then went ...
IFEX

Two journalists transferred to the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court Public Prosecutor’s Office’s cells

On Wednesday 1 August 2001, Pierre Kapepa and Rigobert Kwakala Kashama, associate publisher and publisher, respectively, of the Kinshasa-based twice-weekly newspaper Le Moniteur, were transferred to ...