U.S. Sanctions Three DR Congo Election Officials
Corneille Yobeluo Nangaa, Basengezi Katintima and his son Marcellin Mukolo Basengezi, all senior leaders of the National Independent Electoral Commission, are accused of embezzling funds meant for carrying out a timely democratic vote.
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Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Intercommunal Violence Was Orchestrated - UN
VOA, 14 March 2019
United Nations investigators say intercommunal attacks that killed more than 500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo were orchestrated. The investigators from the U.N. human… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Places Sanctions on Three Top Election Officials
The Sentry, 21 March 2019
Today (March 21, 2019), the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three senior Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)… Read more »
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First imposed in 2016, and renewed in 2017, the EU has extended sanctions on presidential hopeful Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary and fifteen other top officials until 2019. Read more »
