November 28

• Congo-Kinshasa: Conflict Minerals Not Fueling M23 Rebellion [analysis]

  The capture of Goma by M23 rebel forces is the latest demonstration of the ineffectiveness of the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its army (the FARDC).... Read more »

November 27

• Congo-Kinshasa: Governance Reforms Key to Lasting DRC Peace [analysis]

  As usual, a 'peace plan' for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been negotiated by regional leaders behind closed doors - without any real input from Congolese... Read more »

November 22

• Congo-Kinshasa: NGOs Call for African Union-UN Mediator [analysis]

  The conflict in eastern Congo between the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group is crippling the Great Lakes Region, and is... Read more »

October 29

• Congo-Kinshasa: Attempted Murder of DRC Healer and Hero

  There has been an international outcry at last week's attempted assassination of Dr Denis Mukwege at his home in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A world-renowned... Read more »

October 1

• Congo-Kinshasa: Battle Over DRC's Electoral Commission [analysis]

  Let's start with the good news - the lower chamber of the DRC parliament has finally begun discussing a bill to reform the national electoral commission (CENI), which played such a... Read more »

September 27

• Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Mobile Gender Courts Nominated for Award

  After three years and hundreds of cases, the mobile gender court project in South Kivu Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been shortlisted for a... Read more »

September 25

• Congo-Kinshasa: Fighting Over Education for Peace [opinion]

  When two priorities are not quite in sync - one championed by an international donor agency and the other by local recipient groups - which priority carries the day? That was the... Read more »

September 19

• Congo-Kinshasa: Stop Persecution of DRC Bar Association Head [press release]

  The rule of law has long been under threat in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and recently it has suffered another serious blow as the National Director of Public... Read more »

September 12

• Southern Africa: Neutral Force Is a Dangerous Distraction [analysis]

  Our regional leaders have got two things right about the crisis gripping the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). One: that it needs their urgent attention. Two: the leaders... Read more »

August 8

• Congo-Kinshasa: Time to Review Congo's Mining Code [analysis]

  It is a decade since the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) drew up its mining code - and there is no doubt that a review - and subsequent rewriting - of the code is long overdue... Read more »

July 26

• Africa: DRC Fighting Due to Failed Security Sector Reform [analysis]

  With fighting raging again in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), civil society organisations have called on the government to completely - and urgently - overhaul the... Read more »

July 19

• Congo-Kinshasa: Spotlight On the London Stock Exchange [analysis]

  In a damning report, the business and human rights organisation Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) catalogues the inadequacies of the London Stock Exchange’s... Read more »

July 18

• Congo-Kinshasa: Great Lakes Indigenous Peoples Fear Attack [analysis]

  Indigenous rights organisations representing Bambuti and Batwa people who live in the Great Lakes sub-region, consisting of the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo... Read more »

June 1

• Congo-Kinshasa: Nation Needs Security Sector Reform Not Dodd-Frank [opinion]

  The US Congress has been holding hearings into the likely impact of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which aims to control the trade in conflict minerals in the Democratic... Read more »

April 26

• Africa: Freeport Versus the People of Fungurume [analysis]

  The largest mining investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) should have brought jobs, economic growth and development to communities in Fungurume. But the US$2 billion... Read more »

April 25

• Congo-Kinshasa: New Training for Police [analysis]

  The police in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have long had a bad reputation - but a lot of this is down to poor skills and lack of proper training. To counter this, OSISA... Read more »

April 19

• Africa: Osisa Statement to the African Commission [document]

  OSISA called on the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) to take urgent action to protect and promote human rights in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo... Read more »

April 16

• Congo-Kinshasa: Hard to Implement U.S. Conflict Mineral Law [analysis]

  Even though it has not been implemented yet, the section of the US Dodd-Frank that aims to help stem the trade in conflict minerals in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Govt Must Reform Security Sector [analysis]

  The international community and Congolese government must urgently agree upon a new deal to reform the Congolese military, according to a new report by 13 leading international and... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Belgium Urged to Help Villagers [analysis]

  On 24 November 2009, two villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were wrecked - not by fighting or a natural disaster but by bulldozers from a nearby mine. Read more »

March 20

• Congo-Kinshasa: Human Rights Abuses During Elections [analysis]

  The full scale of the human rights abuses that occurred around the disputed presidential and parliamentary elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last November has... Read more »

March 16

• Congo-Kinshasa: ICC Verdict Is Landmark for Child Rights [analysis]

  The decision of the three judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to convict Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga for the recruitment of child soldiers will go down in history... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Chebeya Affair Wins Major Film Award [analysis]

  The Chebeya Affair: A State Crime? Read more »

March 15

• Congo-Kinshasa: Landmark Decision for International Justice [analysis]

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued its first judgment - a milestone on the path towards accountability. The Court found that Thomas Lubanga was the president of the... Read more »

March 14

• Congo-Kinshasa: Rebel Leader's Hague Trial Highlights Security Issues [analysis]

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) will hand down its first ever verdict today in the case of former rebel leader Thomas Lubanga of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As... Read more »