December 22, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: Day Laborers, Trapped in a Complex War Between M25 Rebels and the DR Congo, Return Home
Fulgence Ndayizeye, a Burundian bicycle taxi driver who used to cross the Congolese-Burundian border every day to support his family, wanted to return home. Read more »
October 15, 2025
Burundi: From Burundi to Washington - Recognizing the Warning Signs
Carine Kaneza Nantulya is deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch Read more »
September 05, 2025
Angola: 'Angola Produces Large Quantities of Oil and Diamonds, Yet Most People Don't See the Benefits'
CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Angola with Florindo Chivucute, founder and executive director of Friends of Angola, a US-based civil society organisation established in 2014… Read more »
August 08, 2025
Africa: Landlocked Developing Countries to Start 'New Decade of Delivery'
As the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) concludes today (Friday, August 8) in Awaza, Turkmenistan, with the adoption of the Awaza… Read more »
July 29, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: Forests, Fossil Fuels, and the Fight for the Future - DRC's Oil Expansion Sparks Global Alarm
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stands on the precipice of a profound environmental and social crisis, as the government prepares to auction 55 new oil blocks that cover… Read more »
July 21, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: Soaring Demand for Electric Vehicles, Lithium-Ion Batteries Creates Environmental Crisis in DRC
Electric vehicles contribute to an ongoing environmental and humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mining operations cause deforestation, pollution,… Read more »
July 16, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: 'International Demand for Coltan Is Linked to Violence in the DR Congo'
CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo… Read more »
July 14, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: A Crisis of Contagion and Collapse - Why Cholera Continues to Be a Problem in the DR Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is grappling with one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent history, exposing deep systemic cracks in public health, water infrastructure,… Read more »
June 26, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: Increased Demand for Cobalt Fuels Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In pursuit of money to support their families,… Read more »
May 21, 2025
Africa: Civilians Face Humanitarian Disaster in Great Lakes, Horn of Africa Conflicts
Political instability and conflicts in the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and South Sudan have led to massive displacements and civilian suffering, and because the whole… Read more »
April 03, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: Millions Facing Destitution As Violence Forces People to Flee Multiple Times
Jan Egeland is Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Read more »
February 06, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: Goma - What Have We Done to God to Deserve All This?
Two weeks after Goma was captured by the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, many families who lost their loved ones are begging for peace. Some of them have had no news of their loved… Read more »
August 23, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: Getting a Grip On Food Security in DR Congo
The Association for Integrated Rural Development is one of a number of rural organisations on the periphery of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are… Read more »
August 20, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: Mechanisation Fails for Farmers
Mechanisation was expected to transform agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo's central province of East Kasaï. But a project to offer tractors for ploughing land… Read more »
August 08, 2011
Congo-Kinshasa: Fresh Start for Coffee Producers
Long years of civil war and instability set off a crippling decline in coffee production in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the country's output in 2010 was less than a tenth the… Read more »
August 13, 2010
Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Farmers Welcome Support
Farmers in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo are looking forward to increased production after 16 tractors and 200 ox-drawn carts were distributed across three regions… Read more »
August 18, 2008
Equatorial Guinea: Human Rights Drowning in Oil
The oil interests of Angola, Brazil and Portugal could pave the way for former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea to become the ninth member of the Community of Portuguese Language… Read more »
June 23, 2008
Chad: 'Africa's Pinochet' Still Eluding Justice
Two years after the African Union mandated Senegal to conduct the trial of Chadian dictator Hissenè Habré, who is accused of thousands of political murders during his… Read more »
October 22, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: World Bank Confronts Challenge Over Logging
The World Bank is scrambling to respond to complaints that it broke its own rules to support commercial logging at the expense of Pygmy lands and livelihoods in the war-wrecked… Read more »
February 15, 2007
Cameroon: Women Face to Face With Desertification
The village of Ngouma has a population of 538 people, 406 of which are women. Most of the men, especially those who can still work the fields, have left in the face of land… Read more »
November 11, 2004
Equatorial Guinea: Growing Suppression, Soaring Poverty in Tiny Oil-Rich Country
The dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, is stepping up suppression of opposition, while social conditions in the tiny West African nation are worsening, an… Read more »
July 12, 2004
Congo-Brazzaville: Country Cut From 'Clean' Diamond List
An international diamond "policing" scheme has stricken the Republic of Congo from its list of countries certified as following global trading rules, and accused the… Read more »
