Politics of the Democratic Republic of Congo take place in a framework of a republic in transition from a civil war to a semi-presidential republic.
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FARDC was rebuilt patchily as part of the peace process which followed the end of the Second Congo War in July 2003.
The Second Congo War,also known as the Great War of Africa or the Great African War,began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 1998,little more than a year after the First Congo War,and involved some of the same issues. Eventually involving belligerents from across the African continent,the war officially ended in July 2003 when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power. Although a peace agreement was signed in 2002,violence has continued in many regions of the country,especially in the east. Hostilities have continued since in the ongoing Lord's Resistance Army insurgency,and the Kivu and Ituri conflicts. Nine African countries and around twenty-five armed groups became involved in the war.
The Movement for the Liberation of the Congo is a political party in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Formerly a rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo that fought the government throughout the Second Congo War,it subsequently took part in the transitional government and is one of the main opposition parties.
Ernest Wamba dia Wamba was a prominent Congolese academic and political theorist who became a commander of the Kisangani faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy during the Second Congo War.
Butembo is a city in North Kivu,in the north eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,on the Rwenzori graben and west of Virunga National Park.The city is an important commercial centre with large markets,a cathedral,multiple large hospitals,and an airport. It is the city where live the most prosperous businessmen of the East of the country. The city is located in a region known for tea and coffee growing. As of 2022 it had an estimated population of 2,000,285.
Antoine Gizenga was a Congolese (DRC) politician who was the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 30 December 2006 to 10 October 2008. He was the Secretary-General of the Unified Lumumbist Party.
Azarias Ruberwa Manywa is a Congolese politician,lawyer,and public figure. During the Second Congo War he was Secretary-General of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD-G) rebel group. Following the war he was one of the vice-presidents in the transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 2003-2006. He has also been the leader and president of RCD-G's political party since 2003. He is a member of the Banyamulenge community of South Kivu who belong to the Tutsi ethnic group.
The Forces for Renewal,generally still known by its original name RCD-Kisangani-Movement for Liberation (RCD/K-ML),is a political party in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The party originated as a breakaway faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD).
Olivier Kamitatu Etsu politician of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,and former Planning Minister in the government of Matata Ponyo Mapon and the leader of the Alliance for the Renewal of Congo (ARC) political party. Kamitatu is the President of the Africa Liberal Network.
Congolese history in the 2000s has primarily revolved around the Second Congo War (1998–2003) and the empowerment of a transitional government.
Julien Paluku Kahongya is a Congolese politician. He served as the governor of the province of North Kivu from 27 January 2007 to 22 February 2019.
Isangi is a territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located in the Tshopo District to the west of Kisangani,and mostly to the south of the Congo River. The largest community is Yangambi. Other communities are Isangi,Ligasa and Yanonge. The village of Yaboila was the scene of the murder in 1905 by Topoke people of two white officers of the Lomami Company,which led to severe reprisals.
General elections were held in Democratic Republic of the Congo on 28 November 2011;a facultative run-off on 26 February 2012 was shelved with a change in election laws.
The Congolese Rally for Democracy,also known as the Rally for Congolese Democracy,is a political party and a former rebel group that operated in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was supported by the government of Rwanda,and was a major armed faction in the Second Congo War (1998-2003). It became a social liberal political party in 2003.
Médard Mulangala Lwakabwanga is a politician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is President of the Union for a Republican Majority and a leader of the Union Sacree pour l’Alternance,an umbrella grouping of opposition parliamentary parties and community groups that forms the third-largest political structure within the opposition and Rapporteur of the National Assembly’s Committee on Economics and Finance,making him the opposition’s lead spokesman on budgetary,economic and investment policy in the Republic.
The Congolese Rally for Democracy–Goma was a faction of the Congolese Rally for Democracy,a rebel movement based in Goma,Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the Second Congo War (1998–2003). After the war,some members of the group continued sporadic fighting in North Kivu. The movement also entered mainstream politics,participating in democratic elections with little success.
Émile Ilunga Kalambo is a politician and former leader of the Rally for Congolese Democracy–Goma (RDC-Goma) rebel movement.
The Adolphe Muzito cabinet consists of the ministers of state,ministers and vice-ministers that form the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo under Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito,who took office on 10 October 2008.
