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As the Senate prepares to take up the rescissions package, lawmakers should remember: Peacekeeping isn’t charity, it’s ...
The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and Rwanda President Paul Kagame have expressed displeasure over the ...
CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).On 27 June, the ...
Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has ties to IS, killed civilians in the area of Irumu in the east of the country bordering Uganda. The attack comes as eastern Congo may see an ...
After years of conflict, they see no other way to reclaim their fields. Lubero, DRC | Merveille Kavira Luneghe Global Press ...
[Photo/Xinhua] UNITED NATIONS - Humanitarian crisis is worsening as violence escalated in three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN humanitarians said on Wednesday. The ...
Ongoing violence in Ituri province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be at an end following a six-group agreement signed this week (1 July), the United Nations (UN) mission in the ...
Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.
Kinshasa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the overall decline in the health-care system in North and South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of ...
Since the beginning of the year, Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have swept across eastern DRC, taking key cities including Goma and Bukavu. The violence has displaced more than one million people in Ituri ...
Leaked reports, satellite images and interviews reveal the extent of Rwanda's shadow war in the Congo, as the U.S. tries to strike a deal for peace and access to the region's minerals.