U.S. funded treatments in the country have helped reduce deaths from HIV/AIDS to around 14,000 a year, from as high as ...

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 (DRC).On 27 June, the ...

Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has ties to IS, killed civilians in the area of Irumu in the east of the country bordering Uganda. The attack comes as eastern Congo may see an ...

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing a sharp resurgence of cholera, with cases reported in 17 of its 36 prov ...

A new peace agreement offers hope of quelling hostilities between Kinshasa and Kigali in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed ... and cannot establish lasting peace without justice and reparation.” In Congo's North Kivu province, the hardest hit by the ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is grappling with a major cholera resurgence, with more than 35,000 infections reported across 17 of the country’s 36 provinces since the beginning of the ...

GENEVA (11 July 2025) – UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, will conduct an official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 15 ...