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On the front lines of war in eastern Congo, a Monitor reporter struggled to make sense of the suffering she witnessed.
In eastern Congo, where renewed fighting between government forces and the M23 rebel group rages on, a different kind of ...
FILE - Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts a signing ceremony in which Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, left, and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, right ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio with his counterparts from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in D.C. last month. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) In a darkening world, here’s an ...
Once inside, the first thing you hear at Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a chorus of women, their songs filling the morning air, announcing that chapel has begun.
The Trump administration helped forge a deal for KoBold Metals to buy a large lithium deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. KoBold Metals, backed by billionaire Bill Gates, has brokered ...
Framing M23’s rent-seeking as driven by acquisitive organised crime risks over-simplifying the deep-rooted complexities of conflict dynamics and weak governance in the region. Illicit taxation is the ...
Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a process meant to end fighting in eastern Congo and attract billions of dollars of Western investment, U.S. President Donald ...
JEAN BIZIMANA / REUTERS Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a US-led process that could end fighting in resource-rich eastern Congo, a US official said Monday ...
What’s happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo? People in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are affected by decades of conflict leading to outbreaks of preventable ...
Despite ongoing peace talks, fighting continues in parts of DR Congo between local forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels. The M23 has taken control of much of the eastern part of DR Congo since ...