With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that has simmered in ... Locations of artisanal small-scale mining in eastern DRC from International Peace Information Service ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing a rapidly escalating humanitarian emergency, with civilians paying the price of escalating conflict. As violence surges in Eastern DRC, displacement is ...

Map by Joel Masselink ... Nevertheless, the long-term impacts of the latest bout of conflict in eastern DRC on conservation are unlikely to be straightforward, even if the overall effect is ...

The war in eastern DRC is not about just one issue, it is a deadly mix of ethnic tensions, regional rivalries, resource exploitation, and global interference. Soldiers stand on guard in the Lubero ...

A deadly insurgency is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country three times the size of Texas that is estimated to hold trillions of dollars’ worth of minerals essential to ...

Key Takeaway: Uganda is working with actors on multiple sides of the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to hedge and strengthen its sphere of influence. Uganda has ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister ... than a decade of the long-running conflict in eastern Congo.

“Our investigation strongly suggests that conflict coltan from the DRC smuggled to Rwanda has entered the EU," Alex Kopp, senior campaigner at Global Witness, said in a statement shared with RFI ...

The DRC is not unfamiliar to violence. The conflict has roots stretching back at least three decades. The country has huge amount of natural resources, with many trying to take advantage of it ...