Below are the five most important stories from this week’s news coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- High tension powerline collapses in Kinshasa’s Matadi Kabila Market, killing 26 people
- Dozens killed in DR Congo market by high-voltage cable (Al-Jazeera – English)
- RDC: une vingtaine de morts dans la chute d’un câble haute tension sur un marché de Kinshasa (RFI – French)
- CODECO militants kill more than 60 in machete attack in Djugu territory (Ituri). Afterwards, civil society in Bunia called for a three-day ville morte in honor of the victims of the attack. CODECO militants staged a number of attacks this week throughout Djugu territory.
- Bunia : trois jours ville morte pour honorer les personnes tuées à Savo (Radio Okapi – French)
- They Survived Guns and Machetes in Congo. They Want the World to Know. (The New York Times – English)
- Dozens of civilians killed in militia attack in eastern DR Congo (France24 – English)
- Denis Kadima, President of the CENI (National Independent Electoral Commission) gives first news conference of his tenure, raising doubts, complications about the electoral calendar
- RDC : des élections en 2023, ce sera compliqué, prévient la Ceni (JeuneAfrique – French)
- RDC/CENI : Denis Kadima relève des contraintes susceptibles d’entraver le processus électoral (Politico.cd – French)
- Work begins on deep water port at Banana at the mouth of the Congo River.
- Tshisekedi launches construction of Congo’s first deep-water port (Reuters – English)
- Le Potentiel : « Banana : RDC, future plaque tournante de commerce mondial » (Radio Okapi – French)
- Congolese Army (FARDC) kills 33 Maï-Maï militiamen and Burundian rebels (RED-Tabara and FNL) near Uvira
The Congo Report 
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