The UN Security Council (UNSC) welcomed the peace agreement signed between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the ...

Mining operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Enough Project By Amani Matabaro Tom, Fellow and Scholar at Risk, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, HKS; Founding Director, ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

A US-brokered peace deal aims to end Congo’s long war, but with rebels absent from the talks, many doubt whether signatures alone can bring real change.

Ongoing violence in Ituri province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be at an end following a six-group agreement signed this week (1 July), the United Nations (UN) mission in the ...

Five of the United Nations (UN) 12 peacekeeping and/or peace support missions are in Africa with a commensurate portion of the world body’s $5.4 billion budget for 2025/26 finding its way to troubled ...

Press Release - When MONUSCO's helicopter landed in Goma, emotions ran high. For Bintou Keita, Head of the United Nations Mission in the DRC, this return to a city deeply affected by conflict carried ...

In Goma, displaced residents remain cautiously hopeful. “We want peace, but we’ve seen promises broken before,” says Maria, a mother of three living in a temporary shelter ...

The IMF approved a $261.9 million disbursement under DR Congo’s credit program • Economic growth hit 6.5% in 2024, driven by the extractive sector • Rising security spending pushed the 2024 budget ...

Six armed groups operating in the northeastern province of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have signed a ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in ...