The Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Namibia, Christian Katoto, joined Congolese in Namibia to pray and commemorate the National Day of Genocide.

Thousands of Congolese were killed and buried in mass graves since 1996 in what is known as 30 years of bloodshed in Eastern Congo.

A specialised committee meeting of defense experts of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region opened in Livingstone, Zambia, to discuss the escalating security and humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC.