Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part
A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...
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Extreme inequality and housing injustice in the DRC: rebuilding ‘Kinshasa la Belle’
In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the phrase débrouillez-vous (fend for yourself) is considered such an important life lesson that the city’s inhabitants refer to it as ...
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For DRC to survive, the tribe must die
The external influences at play in eastern DRC are a direct result of the DRC’s failure in governance, further exacerbated by ...
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Congo-Kinshasa: Goma Dispatch - Mass Graves and Reprisal Fears As M23 Seize DR Congo City
The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...
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DRC civil war: M23 rebels and a decades long conflict
Caught in the crossfire, civilians continue to suffer. Entire communities are destroyed, millions are displaced, and countless lives are lost. For the people of eastern DRC, this is not just a crisis ...
DRC conflict: talks have failed to bring peace. Is it time to try sanctions?
The Luanda Process has not been able to bring tangible results either. The reasons for this failure include bad faith from ...
M23 rebels backtrack on ceasefire, take over town of Nyabibwe in eastern DRC
Young people at the meeting in the city's packed stadium chanted "Go to Kinshasa!", the DRC's capital on the other side of ...
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Congo-Kinshasa: Deaths Near 3,000 in Fighting for DR Congo's Goma - UN
A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...
DRC rebels take eastern city of Goma – why it matters and what could happen next
The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.
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EAC-SADC summit sparks different reactions in Kigali and Kinshasa
During a joint EAC-SADC summit, leaders of both organizations called for immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Rwandan ...
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DRC: Foreign companies are targeted in Kinshasa protests
Between the threat of the M23 in Goma and backlash from protesters in Kinshasa condemning the silence of Western embassies, ...
There are bodies in the streets in the DRC as rebel group's sweep reignites decades old conflict
A deadly insurgency is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country three times the size of Texas that is estimated ...