Congo - Kinshasa
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- Republic
- CONSTITUTION
- February 18, 2006
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on the Belgian and French systems
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, composed of National Assembly and Senate
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Constitutional Court, Court of Appeal or Court of Cassation; Council of State; Martial Judicial System, military and civil courts
RELIGIONS
50% Catholics, 20% Protestants, 10% Kimbanguist, 10% Muslims, 10% animist minorities and other indigenous beliefs
From the country
- JANUARY 18, 2026Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
CONGO (DRC) - Update on the situation in Congo
Arrests/abductions of opponents continue: Aubin Minaku Ndjalandjoko
- JANUARY 17, 2026Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
CONGO (RDC) - Updates on the situation in Congo
DECEMBER 28, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Update on the situation in Congo
There is no more news of Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, Kabila's right-hand man
- DECEMBER 24, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - In defence of Joseph Kabila
Who democratically ruled Congo for 17 years, and now is sentenced to death
- OCTOBER 16, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC - FORMER CONGO LEADER KABILA APPEARS AT KENYA POLITICAL MEETING DESPITE ABSENTIA DEATH SENTENCE
The former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo appeared in public on October 15, 2025 for the first time since
- OCTOBER 1, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: EX-PRESIDENT KABILA SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA BY MILITARY COURT
Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia on September 30, 2025 by a military court that convicted him of war crimes, treason, and crimes against humanity.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: MILITARY PROSECUTOR SEEKS DEATH PENALTY AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT KABILA
A military prosecutor on August 21, 2025 demanded the death penalty for DR Congo's former president Joseph Kabila who is on trial in absentia on treason charges.
APRIL 2, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: DEATH SENTENCE FOR THREE AMERICANS OVER COUP ATTEMPT OVERTURNED
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United States citizens convicted for taking part in a failed coup attempt last year, reducing their punishments to life imprisonment.
- JANUARY 28, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: MILITARY COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF MILITARY EXPERT
Congo's military court of appeal on January 27, 2025 confirmed the death sentence previously imposed on Belgian Jean-Jacques Wondo, La Libre writes.
- JANUARY 27, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS DEATH SENTENCES IN DRC AND VIOLATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL
The European Parliament on January 23, 2025 adopted a resolution by a show of hands regarding the respect for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
- DECEMBER 31, 2024Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: 13 SOLDIERS TO HANG FOR MURDER, LOOTING, COWARDICE
A Congolese military tribunal on December 31, 2024 sentenced 13 soldiers to death on charges including murder, looting, and cowardice in what military authorities said was a drive to improve army discipline after territorial losses due to soldiers fleeing
NOVEMBER 5, 2024Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: FOUR SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH SENTENCE CHANGED TO PRISON
Four Congolese soldiers were sentenced to death on October 31, 2024 by a military court in Butembo, North Kivu (east of the Democratic Republic of Congo), with sentence commuted to prison.