International Monetary Fund suspends loan payments after Congolese government fails to make public the details of a deal involving
Gécamines.[1]
January
January 27 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo's main opposition leader condemns parliamentary elections as rigged and calls for a general strike on Monday in protest at his house arrest.[2]
February
February 12 - A senior aide to the President
Joseph Kabila is killed, and the Finance Minister
Matata Ponyo Mapon is injured in a plane crash near the town of
Bukavu.[3]
May
May 9 - Congolese army finds 25 tons of abandoned weapons on
Masisi farm.[4]