On July 10, 2026, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued General License No. 2 (“GL 2”) under the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sanctions Regulations (the “DRCSR”) as the eastern Democratic Republic of
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Rights group says security forces in DRC used excessive force against protesters
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) employed excessive force against demonstrators protesting a proposed constitutional reform that could extend President Félix Tshisekedi’s term.
HRW stated that security officials…
Rights group urges DRC to end support for armed group over human rights violations
Amnesty International called on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s authorities on Thursday to cease their support for the Collective of Movements for Change-People’s Defence Forces (CMC-FDP), an armed group reportedly backed by the Congolese army, due to its…
Petipeti on Continuity in Congolese Constitutional History
By Dan Ernst
Mujinga Pathou Petipeti, University of Kinshasa Faculty of Law, has published The Formation of the State in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Institutional and Constitutional History of a Quest for the Submission of the State to the Rule…
OFAC Sanctions Rwanda Defence Force and Senior Officials in Connection with DRC Conflict
On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed sanctions on the Rwanda Defence Force (“RDF”, the military of Rwanda) and four senior RDF officials pursuant to the Democratic Republic of the…
UN condemns M23 violence against human rights defenders in DRC
UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned acts of “extreme violence” committed by the M23 (Movement du 23 Mars) armed group against human rights defenders in the North and South Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo…
Fox in the Henhouse
On 14 February 2026, the African Union (AU) passed its rotating presidency to Burundi for one year. The timing could hardly be more delicate. In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), violence continues to escalate, and Burundi is not…
Cardinal Ambongo sets out roadmap for polygamy text
Ambongo, the Archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, noted that polygamy appeared in two forms: polygyny, the marriage of a man with several wives, and polyandry, the marriage of a woman with several husbands. He said…
Immigrant of the Day: Bismack Biyombo (Democractic Republic of the Congo)
Bismack Biyombo was born in Zaire, a country now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is an NBA player currently with the Phoenix Suns. He began his hoops career in Spain and previously played for the Charlotte…
OFAC Sanctions DRC Associates of Sanctioned Billionaire in Conjunction with New Strategy on Countering Corruption and Global Magnitsky Designations
On December 6, 2021, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) named one individual and 12 entities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gibraltar as Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) pursuant to the Global Magnitsky Sanctions…