Executive director visited Kinshasa to meet with officials, urging them to improve governance amidst a current crackdown that echoes past administrations.

The entities involved

• Human Rights Watch →

  international human rights advocacy and research non-governmental organization

  • The Trump administration has initiated a mass deportation policy targeting Cubans, sending them to Mexico while human rights organizations monitor the practices.Sat 03:22
  • Authorities escalated executions against protesters, monitored by Human Rights Watch.Fri 16:45
• Kinshasa →

  capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo having the status of a province

  • A plane crashed on September 1, 2026, while traveling from Kikwit to Kinshasa. Al Jazeera reported the incident.Sat 21:54
  • Kinshasa is the capital of Congo, and Ituri is a province within the country.Sat 20:42
• Judith Suminwa →

  Prime Minister and Former Minister of Planning in the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Nothing else this week.

• Joseph Kabila →

  President of the DR Congo from 2001 to 2019

  • Félix Tshisekedi leads the Democratic Republic of the Congo through political tensions and crises while facing opposition over constitutional term limits and calls for dialogue.Sun 10:22
  • US sanctioned former DRC President Joseph Kabila for supporting rebel groups in South Kivu.Sat 19:52