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More than 7 million people displaced. Over 7 million people are displaced across the DRC, including 2.8 million in North Kivu—a province in eastern DRC where much of the recent fighting has been ...
As long as the DRC continues to be a stamping ground for militias, including M23, and other neighboring countries, instability will create the perfect conditions for atrocity crimes to be perpetrated.
A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a little over a week after it took control of the region’s ...
Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.
The crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) escalated at the end of January 2025 when Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu, fell to Rwanda-backed M23 rebels. The ...
The DRC government has repeatedly accused Rwanda of supporting the M23 rebel group, a claim that Rwanda denies. Kigali, in turn, alleges that Kinshasa collaborates with the Democratic Forces for ...
D eadly floods currently being experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are becoming ever-more likely as the world’s climate warms, new research has found.. Recent days have seen ...
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has commuted the death sentences of three Americans convicted of attempting a coup to life imprisonment, days before US government officials ...
DRC seeks to lift ex-President Kabila’s immunity over alleged war crimes. Joseph Kabila denies charges of treason and war crimes amid escalating tensions in volatile eastern provinces.
Amnesty International on Tuesday called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to halt the planned execution of 170 prisoners on death row, urging the DRC to move toward abolishing the death ...
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have said at least 129 people were killed while trying to escape from the central Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa.
A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a little over a week after it took control of the region’s ...