Former Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of Congo Augustin Matata Ponyo has been placed under house arrest by the country’s Constitutional Court pending an investigation into embezzlement charges, ...

The following is a recent interview with Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo Mapon of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He served as Minister of Finance from February 2010 to April 18, 2012, when ...

Urukiko rwakatiye Augustin Matata Ponyo wahoze ari Minisitiri w'intebe wa Repubulika ya Demokarasi ya Congo kumara imyaka 10 akora imirimo y'agahato nyuma yo guhamwa no kurya ruswa. Ku wa kabiri, ...

A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to a decade's forced labour for corruption. Augustin Matata Ponyo was found guilty of embezzling about $245m (£182m) of ...

The trial of the former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo over alleged embezzlement of funds meant for an agro-industrial project opened Monday at the country’s Constitutional Court.

A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years of hard labor for embezzling public funds. Augustin Matata Ponyo's co-defendants -- Deogratias Mutombo ...

After the scandals surrounding the ‘100-Days Programme’, will the Bukanga Lonzo agroindustrial park case go to trial? Augustin Matata Ponyo, who was the DRC’s prime minister at the time of this ...

Ponyo was, for a time, on Kabila’s list of his potential successors in the run-up to the 2018 presidential election. Since then, the senator from Maniema, centre-east DRC, has distanced himself from ...

Augustin Matata Ponyo is being investigated for embezzlement charges. Ponyo's attorney said the case is political and that there is no evidence against him. He is being accused of ordering the payment ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) released former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon from house arrest on Wednesday after he agreed to cooperate with the investigation about the alleged ...