International Rescue Committee

Conflict in the DRC: What you need to know about the crisis

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 ...
NPR

American DRC coup plotters are on their way back to U.S.

Three Americans sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for their role in a failed coup last year in the central African country have been returned to the United States, a Congolese ...
CNN

DR Congo repatriates three Americans who faced death penalty over failed coup attempt

Three Americans have been transferred to the United States after their death sentences over a foiled deadly coup were commuted to life imprisonment last week by Congolese authorities, in the wake of ...
CNN

DRC president commutes death sentences for 3 Americans convicted in coup attempt

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has commuted the death sentences of three Americans convicted of attempting a coup to life imprisonment, days before US government officials are ...
Transparency International

DRC: No accountability for Glencore crimes until justice is delivered to all victims

Three anti-corruption and human rights groups have urged the US Department of Justice to award compensation to former healthcare employees in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who suffered ...
UNHCR

DRC: UN officials raise alarm at the dramatic impact of prolonged conflict on women and children, including increased risk of conflict-related sexual violence on displaced people

NEW YORK/GENEVA – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in ...
PBS

WATCH: Trump meets with officials from Rwanda and DRC after signing of peace deal

Rwandan and Congolese diplomats had an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump after their signing of a U.S.-mediated peace deal at the State Department earlier Friday. Watch in the player ...
The Conversation

DRC is the world’s largest producer of cobalt – how control by local elites can shape the global battery industry

Raphael Deberdt receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Jessica DiCarlo received funding from The Wilson Center. The mineral-rich Democratic Republic ...
Reuters

US sanctions Rwandan minister, militant over DRC conflict

WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday said it was imposing sanctions on a Rwandan government minister and a senior member of an armed group for their alleged role in the ...
Forbes

DRC: Cholera Epidemic Rapidly Spreading Across The Country

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. A medical worker takes care of patients at a cholera treatment ...
Jurist

Press group urges DRC government and rebel authorities to stop harassing journalist

On Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on both government and rebel authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to end harassment of a reporter who has been ...