The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo have claimed that they have seized a second airport in the region following a days-long advance towards Bukavu city. Meanwhile the U.N. warned that the ...

A new study reveals that peatlands—a vital carbon store that many people have never heard of—are dangerously under-protected, ...

DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

Armed men have raped dozens of children in eastern Congo over the past weeks, UNICEF says. It comes as rebels expand their footprint in the area and push government forces out. At such a critical ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces a deepening crisis as of February 2025 as political instability, insurgencies, ...

The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in an area already housing thousands of displaced people ...

As the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reaches a critical juncture, pressure is mounting on the African ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

including 127 sentenced to death,” explained Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Justice Minister Constant Mutamba during a press briefing January 6. These death sentences come after the ...