July 25

• Congo-Kinshasa: Soldiers Trade in Illegal Ivory

  At a popular tourist art market in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, paintings and art sculptures made from bronze, copper, malachite, stone or wood attract visitors.... Read more »

July 24

• Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Courts Uphold Conflict Minerals Disclosure

  A U.S. federal judge has upheld a key regulatory provision aimed at ensuring that the profits from products mined in central Africa are not used to benefit armed groups,... Read more »

July 13

• Congo-Kinshasa: Teachers Accused of Abusing Girls

  In some Democratic Republic of Congo schools, teachers and senior authorities are using their status to abuse girls who do not know their rights, according to the African... Read more »

July 01

• Congo-Kinshasa: Fleeing With What's Most Important

  If you were forced to flee your home to survive, what would you take? What could you take? Jean Claude "Van Damme" Ndongizimana, 20, escaped from the eastern Democratic Republic of... Read more »

June 21

• Congo-Kinshasa: Time Still Not Right for Congolese Refugees to Return

  Tuyisenge*, a former teacher from the Democratic Republic of Congo province of North Kivu, sat on a tree stump watching his fellow refugees go about their lives along the terraces... Read more »

June 02

• Congo-Kinshasa: The Battle to Save DRC's Mothers

  "Many hospitals and health centres" that are not run by NGOs "do not meet health standards," according to Dominique Baabo, provincial medical inspector for North Kivu province in... Read more »

May 17

• Congo-Kinshasa: Pressure Mounting On U.S. Over Congo Violence

  With casualties in the long-running conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) now surpassing every conflict since World War II, U.S. policymakers and advocates are... Read more »

May 16

• Congo-Kinshasa: Fears of Rebel Infiltration of DR Congo Army

  The "blind and unrestricted" reintegration of M23 deserters into the Congolese army could harm the country, according to Thomas d'Aquin Mwiti, the chair of the North Kivu civil... Read more »

May 02

• Rwanda: Not Safe for Rwandan Refugees to Return

  The Congolese government is demanding a comprehensive strategy for a lasting solution for the repatriation of 127,537 Rwandan refugees estimated to be in the country. Read more »

April 25

• Somalia: South Sudan 'Between Somalia and Congo'

  Experts here are calling on the United States and the international community to increase pressure on the government of South Sudan to address weaknesses in its central governance. Read more »

April 24

• South Africa: The Politics of Peace in DR Congo

  As the first of South Africa's troops are expected to begin arriving in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the United Nations intervention force at the end of April,... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Locals Refuse to Protest for M23 Rebels

  When M23 rebels tried twice to arrange a protest march against a United Nations resolution to deploy an intervention brigade with an offensive mandate to eastern Democratic... Read more »

April 19

• Congo-Kinshasa: The Quest for the Autonomy of Mining DRC Province

  The Mai-Mai Kata-Katanga rebel group operating in Katanga, in south eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, say that they are engaged in an armed campaign for the autonomy of the... Read more »

April 17

• Congo-Kinshasa: Why 'Rape Victims Must Talk About Their Trauma' [interview]

  Rape is often perceived as an individual trauma, but in reality its impact extends far beyond a single person and instead affects entire communities, complicating the already... Read more »

April 12

• Congo-Kinshasa: The Forced Inheritance Of DRC's Military Kids

  The children of deceased police and army officers in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are finding themselves forced to adopt their late fathers'careers in the... Read more »

• South Africa: Questions Raised About Deployment To DR Congo

  Kholekile Dlamini has been devastated by the death of her son Xolani Dlamini, a South African National Defence Force soldier who died in the Central African Republic. Like many... Read more »

March 27

• Congo-Kinshasa: Small Miners - From Digging in Danger to Becoming Legal

  Congolese small-scale miner Elizabeth Tshimanga has made a successful living from prospecting. But like many artisanal miners in Africa, hers has been a long and tough journey... Read more »

March 22

• Rwanda: More Rebels Seek Asylum After War Crimes Suspect's Surrender

  As the Rwandan government said on Thursday Mar. 21 that it would do all it could to ensure the speedy transfer of war crimes suspect General Bosco Ntaganda to the International... Read more »

March 19

• Congo-Kinshasa: 'Born in War, Grown Up in War, Now Time for Rehabilitation'

  Sungu Mizele, a Congolese national living in Yambio, in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state, earns a living selling the fruit and vegetables that she grows in her backyard, at... Read more »

March 15

• Congo-Kinshasa: Locals Forced to Pay Army and Rebels

  On the way to his fields, Denise Mambo, a resident of Kitshanga, North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, stops at a rope laid across his path. Read more »

March 12

• Congo-Kinshasa: Child Sexual Exploitation On the Rise in North Kivu

  A street in Goma's city centre, the capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been nicknamed "the ward of death" because of the brutal crimes that... Read more »

March 07

• Uganda: North Kivu Refugees Hope to Find Peace

  As dawn rises over Nyakabande, a village in southwestern Uganda, people line up in front of a reception tent, exhausted and carrying only the few belongings they could bring across... Read more »

February 21

• Congo-Kinshasa: Market Gardening Provides Livelihoods for Refugees

  Standing behind her market stall in Masisu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which overflows with cabbages, carrots and onions, Marceline Dusabe does not fit the... Read more »

December 27, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Kinshasa Graveyard Home to Hundreds

  Despite the health risks, hundreds of families are living in a cemetery in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. Municipal authorities seem powerless to act. Read more »

December 11, 2012

• Central Africa: U.S. Defends DR Congo, Rwanda Policy

  President Barack Obama's top diplomat on African affairs on Tuesday defended the U.S. administration's response to the continued crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),... Read more »