He said 59 people were injured and cited “some cases of women being raped” during Monday’s incident at Makala Central Prison in the capital city of Kinshasa. He added that there was ...

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced three Chinese nationals to seven years in prison for engaging ... one protester told VOA's Central Africa Service. This story originated ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said.