Democratic Republic of Congo: What's happening and why are M23 rebels fighting?
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...
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DRC’s huge Green Corridor project lacks buy-in from forest communities
DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...
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UNHCR seeks urgent support as violence in eastern DR Congo leaves hundreds of thousands without shelter
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the continued lack of access to displaced people hampers the ...
The Lancet1d
Humanitarian and health-care crises in eastern DR Congo
An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...
Mining Weekly1d
Infrastructure challenges undermine DRC’s mining potential
Despite possessing vast mineral wealth, including significant deposits of copper, cobalt and gold, the Democratic Republic of ...
La Croix2d
DR Congo's death penalty plan for gang youth sparks division
including 127 sentenced to death,” explained Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Justice Minister Constant Mutamba during a press briefing January 6. These death sentences come after the ...
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How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence
Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...
The Digital Courier2d
Burundi warns Rwanda as eastern DR Congo conflict advances
M23 fighters and Rwandan troops on Wednesday pushed further into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as Burundi warned ...
M23’s capture of Goma is the latest chapter in eastern Congo’s long-running war
Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...
Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part
A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...
110,000 people are stranded in eastern Congo as rebels are accused of forced return
The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...
Buffalo News3d
Grand Island gets (yet another) nature preserve
The land was purchased with funding help from the Niagara River Greenway's ecological standing committee. The nearly 40 acres is currently fallow farmland. If the organization can get additional ...