UPDATE: Belgian court rules that 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon must stand trial for alleged 1961 assassination of DR Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. He's sole surviving suspect among 10 accused Belgians. Lumumba's body was dissolved in acid
UPDATE: In Ituri, northeast DR Congo, islamist ISS militants have attacked a Chinese company and government forces, burned down everything and seizing weapons
UPDATE: Flamboyant ex-Burundian Premier Alain Guillaume Bunyoni has been granted provisional release to seek medical treatment. Bunyoni, jailed in 2023 over an alleged coup plot against President Évariste Ndayishimiye, was reportedly seriously ill.
UPDATE: In DR Congo's Katanga region, a new rebel group is born; “Stand Up Katanga Movement for the Liberation of Congo” (MDKC). Congolese social media linking it to ex-president Joseph Kabila