[1] DRC President Joseph Kabila Kabange visited India to attend the First India-Africa Forum Summit on 8-9 April 2008.

The major commodities imported by India from the DRC are mineral fuel, mineral oils, copper, natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, oil seeds and olea, and miscellaneous grains.

[2] India's Gurkha troops served under the ONUC UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC during 1960–62, aimed at quelling a rebellion in the Katanga province.

[1] As of December 2016, around 4,500 Indian troops, military observers and police personnel are deployed in the country as part of MONUSCO.

The Indian community is primarily employed in services sector, as well as business, trading and manufacturing.