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 ...
JD Supra

Key Changes to the DRC Mining Code: A New Era for Investors and National Development

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to some of the world’s richest deposits of cobalt, copper, and other critical minerals, enacted major revisions to its Mining Code in March 2018. These ...
Jurist

UN rapporteur urges DRC to combat human trafficking amid eastern conflict

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must take immediate action to combat human trafficking amid ongoing conflict in the country’s eastern regions, a high-ranking UN official urged Friday.
International Rescue Committee

DRC: Waterborne diseases threaten to compound escalating humanitarian crisis, warns the IRC

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 30, 2025 — The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to face an escalating humanitarian crisis as conflict-driven displacement leaves millions ...
American Enterprise Institute

Uganda in the DRC’s M23 Conflict—Friend to All, Enemy to None

The Critical Threats Project’s Africa File provides regular analysis and assessments of major developments regarding state and nonstate actors’ activities in Africa that undermine regional stability ...
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 ...
The Conversation

DRC vs Rwanda at the African Court: why it could be a decisive moment for human rights and justice on the continent

Frans Viljoen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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'Peace prospects dire': More tensions as M23 fights on in DRC despite deal

When Qatar helped secure a peace deal to end ongoing conflict between the M23 rebel group and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) government last month, there was hope among many Congolese that a ...
NPR

DRC is seeing its worst mpox outbreak — but has no vaccines or treatments yet. Why?

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the fight against mpox – previously known as monkeypox – is entering a new phase. While many are anxious to contain the outbreak – the largest mpox outbreak ever ...
CNN

Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a little over a week after it took control of the region’s largest ...
CNN

As two African nations sign a peace deal, Trump wants credit. But some fear peace may still elude them

A peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where a militia allegedly backed by Rwanda occupies vast swaths of land, was ...
The Africa Report

DRC-EAC: 10 things the EACRF deployment agreement says (or doesn’t say)

In Kinshasa, senior as well as rank-and-file politicians continue to speak in complete disapproval of the regional force. Tshisekedi has warned that if the results of the force aren’t satisfactory, it ...