Feb 11, 2025 · 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.

Feb 7, 2025 · As the Democratic Republic of Congo’s decades-long struggle with insecurity heats up, increased regional military engagement heightens risks.

The Second Congo War pits Burundian, Ugandan, and Rwandan forces (which together with eastern Congolese rebels form the Congolese Rally for Democracy, or RCD) against Kabila and his backers.

May 23, 2024 · A clumsy coup d’état attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo reveals the underlying fragility of U.S.-DRC relations.

Nov 7, 2024 · Attempts to change the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo only exacerbate existing citizen distrust in government.

Since 1996, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has grappled with two waves of deadly civil conflict that have drawn in neighboring countries and claimed up to six million lives, either as a ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of today’s violence can be traced back to old problems.

The mayhem is certainly real; the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) displacement crisis is second only to Sudan’s, and many of the roughly 1.5 million people now trapped in Goma have been ...

Aug 20, 2024 · The peacebuilding challenge in the Democratic Republic of Congo is daunting, to be sure. But the alternative is, and has been, a catastrophe.

Nov 3, 2023 · Early this week, the International Organization for Migration announced that nearly seven million people have been displaced by conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the vast majority of ...