Press Release - From 17 to 19 June, nearly 90 participants from Beni, Butembo, and Lubero, including local authorities, traditional leaders, humanitarian actors, and civil society representatives, met ...

The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group has deported over 1,500 people from occupied eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda in violation of the ...

ZNet’s Alexandria Shaner and François Kamate, a young climate and human rights defender from North Kivu province, discuss the situation ... the Congolese government launched a new map of 52 oil blocks ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are set to sign a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decadeslong deadly fighting in eastern Congo ...

AFC/M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo have accused the government coalition of conducting a series of attacks against the Banyamulenge community in South Kivu province. In a statement posted on X ...

Without any medicine, we struggle to treat even everyday illnesses like malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhoea,” said Safari , a nurse at a health centre in Kalehe, in South Kivu. Under IHL, ...

In Congo’s North Kivu province, the hardest hit by the fighting, some believe the peace deal will help resolve the violence but warn justice must still be served for an enduring peace to take hold.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are set to sign a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decades-long deadly fighting in eastern Congo. The peace deal is due to be signed ...