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As the Senate prepares to take up the rescissions package, lawmakers should remember: Peacekeeping isn’t charity, it’s ...
Funding cuts to international aid organizations also mean medical assistance has dried up for vulnerable people affected by conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Heineken has lost operational control and withdrawn its staff from its facilities in conflict-affected areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Dutch brewer said on Friday.
The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and Rwanda President Paul Kagame have expressed displeasure over the ...
Funding cuts to international aid organizations mean that medical assistance has dried up for vulnerable people affected by ...
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).
"I am a mother of four children whom I send to school. I collect empty plastic bottles; after washing them, I fill them with water or fruit juice from a powdered preparation, put them in the freezer, ...
The recent peace agreement signed between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda fails to address justice for the victims of serious crimes by not including any provisions aimed at holding ...
Representatives of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have initialed a peace agreement aimed at ending the conflict in eastern DRC -- a document to be formally signed ...
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 remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...
Fighting for control of the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral wealth has killed millions. Trump wants to end it, and potentially reap huge rewards.