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
- MAY 28, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Beni: An army sergeant sentenced to death for the murder of five people
28 May 2018: the first Sergeant Damascene Ntagonayigiza Mbyayingabo was sentenced to the death penalty for the murder of five persons.
- MAY 25, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Tshikapa: a soldier sentenced to death for the murder of two colleagues
25 May 2018: the military Court of Tshikapa (Kasai) condemned first class soldier Fabrice Aliata for a double murder. He killed the day before, an Army captain and a post commander.
- MARCH 21, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Congo: Colonel Abbas Kayonga sentenced to death with 13 other people
21 March 2018: Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bukavu military court sentenced the former anti-corruption chief of the rich mining province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- JANUARY 30, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
One sentenced to death
30 January 2018: the Lieutenant-Colonel, Ndoyipiwa Juna of the armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was sentenced to capital punishment
- JANUARY 22, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Beni: one condemned to death
22 January 2018: the military Court of North Kivu sentenced to death Yusuf Dongo Amala
- JANUARY 21, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: 66 death sentences in the ADF trials, since 2016
21 January 2018: the Congolese military justice announced that it had condemned to death 66 persons since the opening in August 2016
- JANUARY 19, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Beni: 14 condemned to death
19 January 2018: the military Court of North Kivu delivered its verdict in the case under RP. 172/2017 against 30 defendants, 14 of whom were sentenced to the death penalty,
- JANUARY 18, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Beni: 6 condemned to death
18 January 2018: the operational military Court of North Kivu had delivered two judgments in the cases under PR: 197/2017 and 209/2017 and senteced to death six.
JANUARY 13, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: REBEL LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The military court in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced a rebel leader to death.
- JANUARY 10, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Beni: two militia chiefs sentenced to death
10 January 2018: the military Court of North Kivu, sitting in the fair room in Beni, condemned Ugandan rebels of the ADF and their collaborators to sentences which vary between two years of penal servitude to the death penalty.
- JANUARY 8, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Beni: one condemned to death
8 January 2018: the operational military Court of North Kivu had sentenced to death Kamal Selemani
- NOVEMBER 17, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
North Kivu: one death sentence for the attack at the Goma airport in 2015
17 November 2017: the operational military Court of Goma condemned to the death penalty and the payment of $650,000 in favor of the Congolese state, Mr Malonga Kambala