December 1

• Congo-Kinshasa: Humanitarian Speaks On the Cost of the Goma Crisis [interview]

  The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) estimates that 140,000 people have been forced to flee battles taking... Read more »

November 29

• Congo-Kinshasa: Growing Humanitarian Needs in Goma

  When clashes broke out on 22 November between the M23 rebels and government-allied Mai Mai militias in the town of Sake, near the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) border with... Read more »

November 28

• Congo-Kinshasa: Civilian Population in Masisi At Risk

  As Masisi, a lush territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), finds itself surrounded by military elements and mounting conflict, humanitarian agencies grow... Read more »

November 23

• Congo-Kinshasa: Coffee Growers in DR Congo Trade Their Way Out of Poverty

  As M23 rebel fighters marched into Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a small group of people in the UK were watching anxiously to see what would happen next.... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Paths to Peace in the Kivus

  Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila and his Rwandan and Ugandan counterparts, Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni, held crisis talks in Uganda a day after rebels... Read more »

November 22

• Congo-Kinshasa: No Power, Little Safe Water in Goma

  Thirty-one bodies have been collected from streets in and around the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) city of Goma since rebels took it over on 20 November. Ten were... Read more »

November 20

• Congo-Kinshasa: Fall of Goma Puts 200,000 Children At Risk

  The arrival of M23 rebels in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on 20 November, has triggered widespread concern over the humanitarian ramifications in a region already beset by... Read more »

November 17

• Congo-Kinshasa: DRC's M23 Rebellion Under Pressure [opinion]

  Heavy fighting broke out on 15 November in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo between M23 rebels and government forces (FARDC), breaking a virtual truce that had lasted... Read more »

November 6

• Chad: Analysis - Is U.S. Action Against Use of Child Soldiers On the Backburner? [analysis]

  The Child Soldier Prevention Act (CSPA) was a prime example of US bipartisan human rights legislation: sponsored by Democratic and Republican senators and signed into law in 2008... Read more »

October 19

• Congo-Kinshasa: Doubts Mount Over Ugandan Mediation

  Uganda's mediation to end the fighting in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between government troops and M23 "mutineers", which has caused large-scale population... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Continuing Efforts to Contain Ebola

  An Ebola outbreak that has killed several people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) appears to be slowing down, but health workers say there is a need for continued... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Tough Bargaining With Armed Groups

  A recent incident in the town of Kalembe, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) North Kivu Province, highlighted the fluid ambiguity of the national army's troubled... Read more »

October 10

• Uganda: DRC Refugee Influx Stretching Relief Supplies

  An increasing caseload of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is stretching food and non-food resources in western Uganda, say humanitarian officials. Read more »

October 5

• Congo-Kinshasa: Call to Implement Peace Agreements in North Kivu

  Experts have called on donors and the international community to exert pressure on governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to stop the escalation of... Read more »

September 27

• Congo-Kinshasa: Army Chief Pushes for Disarming After Massacres

  Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they are trying to arrange for the assembly and disarmament of rival ethnic militias implicated in the massacres of... Read more »

September 25

• Congo-Kinshasa: Children Bear Brunt of Conflict in the East

  Children in the Kivu provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not only getting caught in the crossfire of the area's ongoing violence, but also facing health... Read more »

September 24

• Congo-Kinshasa: Thousands of Displaced Out of Reach

  Weather conditions and continued insecurity are hampering aid agencies' efforts to reach hundreds of thousands of people displaced by armed conflict in eastern Democratic Republic... Read more »

September 6

• Central African Republic: CAR Refugees Face Urgent Needs in DRC

  More than 1,700 people who fled attacks in the Central African Republic (CAR) have streamed into neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and are in urgent need of... Read more »

August 24

• Congo-Kinshasa: Bushmeat Blamed for Ebola Outbreak

  Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo's north-eastern Orientale Province are urging the population to desist from activities that could put them at risk of... Read more »

August 22

• Congo-Kinshasa: More Help Needed to Control Livestock Disease Outbreak

  The Ministry of Agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo has called for more support to control an epidemic of peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a contagious viral disease... Read more »

August 21

• Congo-Kinshasa: Violence Hampers Aid Work in Ituri

  Inter-ethnic tensions have again turned violent in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri region, compromising the delivery of humanitarian aid to more than 100,000... Read more »

August 16

• Congo-Kinshasa: Children, Young Men Flee M23 Recruitment

  Thousands of children and young men are fleeing rebel-held areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern North Kivu Province to escape forced recruitment by the insurgents,... Read more »

August 2

• Congo-Kinshasa: Resettlement Still a Last Resort

  After five years of hoping and waiting, Marie*, her husband Simeon* and their three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, finally received a phone call telling... Read more »

July 25

• Congo-Kinshasa: Concerns Over Cholera Mount Amid Clashes

  Conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where M23 rebels and other armed groups are fighting government forces, is dangerously undermining efforts to combat a... Read more »

July 20

• Congo-Kinshasa: Livestock Disease Hits Small Farmers in West

  "[Livestock] farmers have become miserable with many unable to sustain their livelihoods after the death of their goats and sheep," Romain Badalalabuna, chairman of the livestock... Read more »