This is a list of chiefs of staff of the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zaire.

The available information on the following officers is incomplete and sometimes contradictory. In addition to armed forces chiefs of staff, in 1966 Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Malila was listed as Army Chief of Staff.Miami News, 18 June 1966 and Sydney Taylor (ed), The New Africans: A Guide to the Contemporary History of Emergent Africa and its Leaders, Paul Hamlin, London/Reuters, 1967, p.95, 102

Republic of the Congo (1960–71)

Republic of Zaire (1971–97) Following Mobutu Sese Seko's take over of Republic of the Congo, the country was renamed the Republic of Zaire.

Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997–present)

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