Kasongo, additional reporting by Kahindo Sifa Bahati.... Please credit the Thomson Reuters

KINSHASA( REUTERS)-A mob attacked Indian businesses and vehicles in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Thursday( Aug 12), the police said, part of ongoing fallout from a Congolese student's death in Indian police custody last week. Several Indian businesses in Kinshasa were looted last week following the death of Joel Malu, a Congolese student in Bangalore. African diplomats have complained in the past about racism against their citizens living in India, especially in the aftermath of the

KINSHASA( Reuters)-Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has been re-elected for a second term after getting more than 73% of the vote in this month's presidential election, the country's election commission said on Sunday. Announcing the results on Sunday in the capital Kinshasa, Denis Kadima, the head Congo's national election commission known as the CENI, said Tshisekedi was elected with 73.34% of the vote having obtained over 13 million votes out of over 18 million valid

BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo( Reuters)-The death toll from an attack in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province rose to 25 on Sunday, a local chief and civil society leader said, after a government spokesman and a U.N. document confirmed the attack on Saturday. The Cooperative for the Development of the Congo( CODECO) group, one of many militias operating in the conflict-ridden east, carried out the killings in the village of Galayi, 70 km( 45 miles) northwest o

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept 5( Reuters)-Six soldiers were charged on Tuesday for their involvement in the killing of 56 people during an army crackdown on anti-U.N. demonstrations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week. The group, which includes a colonel and a lieutenant-colonel from the republican guard, are being prosecuted for" crimes against humanity by murder, malicious destruction and inciting soldiers to commit acts contrary to duty or discipline", according to a

KINSHASA( Reuters)-Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has been re-elected for a second term after getting more than 73% of the vote in a Dec.... 20 poll, the country's election commission CENI said on Sunday. The declaration of the result follows days of opposition complaints about the way the election was conducted.... Cheers erupted from Tshisekedi's supporters present at the declaration after Kadima announced that Tshisekedi was provisionally elected....

BRUSSELS/ KINSHASA( Reuters)-The European Union has cancelled its election observation mission for the Democratic Republic of Congo's Dec.... " The EU mission had planned to deploy long-term observers in most provinces of the DRC, but this is now no longer possible," it said.... EU spokesperson Nabila Massrali told Reuters on Tuesday that election observers were already in Kinshasa and were supposed to be deployed across the country on Nov....

KINSHASA( Reuters)-Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi faces off against more than two dozen rivals in a Dec.... Below are the main candidates in the race. President Felix TshisekediTshisekedi, 60, son of Congo's late opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, came to power in a disputed 2018 election buoyed by a power-sharing alliance with former president Joseph Kabila.... He was governor of copper-rich Katanga region from 2007 to 2015....