2012 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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See also:	Other events of 2012; History of the DRC

The following lists events that happened during 2012 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Incumbents

International Monetary Fund suspends loan payments after Congolese government fails to make public the details of a deal involving Gécamines.^[1]

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 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 9 - Congolese army finds 25 tons of abandoned weapons on Masisi farm.^[4]
May 15 - a fact-finding tour by United Nations/NGO personnel of the Masisi found many internal refugees and accounts of robbery, press gangs and forced labor, water supply problems and shortages of medical supplies. Fighters had used school buildings as living quarters and burned desks and other fixtures for heat. Some fifty women had reported a rape, and there were reports of militia members hiding in Virunga National Park, including one Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) fighter said to really be working with insurgents. Unexploded ordnance was an issue, as were the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) affiliations of local Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) commander colonel Kabundi, suspected of Mai-Mai sympathies.^[5]

An artisanal gold mine collapses in Orientale Province, killing approximately 60 miners.^[6]

^ Marie Chêne (11 March 2014). "OVERVIEW OF CORRUPTION AND ANTI-CORRUPTION IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)" (PDF). Transparency International.
^ "Congo poll: Etienne Tshisekedi condemns results". 27 January 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Finance minister wounded in Congo plane crash-govt". 12 February 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ Radio Okapi (May 9, 2007). "Les FARDC récupèrent 25 tonnes d'armes dans la ferme de Bosco Ntaganda". Congo Planète.
^ Medecins Afrique (May 2015). "Rapport de mission conjointe de monitoring" [Report of the Joint Monitoring Mission] (PDF) (in French).
^ US Department of State. "DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: 2013 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY" (PDF). p. 37. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-28.
^ Radio Okapi (November 21, 2012). "Nord-Kivu : le M23 a pris le contrôle de la cité de Sake" [Nord-Kivu: M23 Militia takes control of the town of Sake] (in French).

v t e Years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congo Free State	1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Belgian Congo	1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960
Republic of Congo	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
Democratic Republic of the Congo	1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
Zaire	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
DR Congo	1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

v t e 2012 in Africa
Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Azawad Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Ascension Island Mayotte Réunion Saint Helena Tristan da Cunha Western Sahara